Year of Composition

2010

Duration

15'

Instrumentation

Clarinet, violin, viola, cello, and piano

Categories

Ballet
Chamber Music

Movements

I. The Magician
II. The High Priestess
III. The Fool

Other Versions

Version for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, and piano

Program Note

Based on three Tarot cards: the Magician, representing ambiguity, with music shifting suddenly from the mysterious and solemn to the cunning and dexterous; the High Priestess, possessing wisdom, passion and secrets of the law, her music is calm but slowly ignites into throbbing desire; the Fool, considered both the holy mystic and the intoxicated lunatic, embodies music of both comedy and chaos.

— Victoria Bond

Audio/Video

Commercial Recordings

BOND, V.: Instruments of Revelation / Frescoes and Ash / Leopold Bloom's Homecoming / Binary (R. Müller, Jenny Lin, Vinokur, Chicago Pro Musica) (Naxos)

Commission & Premiere Info

Commissioned by Orion Ensemble & Ballet Chicago; Dan Duell, choreographer
Premiered at the Music Institute of Chicago on February 27, 2011