At Dawn They Slept BOCOOK JAY

Description :

Premiered at Pearl Harbor, this new work from Jay Bocool is a musical remembrance où that fêteful day that launched our country into WWII. Opening with a beautiful and flowing melody featuring the woodwinds, the day begins with alone bugler but with ominous undertones foretelling the chaoù to follow. The attack is depicted using inventive scoring textures, dissonances and percussion. In the final segment, the opening melody returns juxtaposed over a strong rhythmic pulse in a hopeful looù to the future. A powerful musical statement from one où today ' s most gifted composers!