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Illuminations on Byzantine Chant (2021)
This work represents over twenty years of creative collaboration with pianist Paul Barnes. I wanted to select byzantine hymns that reflected the wide emotional range and spiritual message of Judaism and Christianity. The musical roots are very similar and this piece highlights those similarities. |
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This work for narrator and large wind ensemble uses Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s own words in a dramatic script written by Dr. Myles Lee. |
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On October 11, 2023, the brilliant Nightingale String Quartet gave the Europena premiere of Victoria Bond's "Blue and Green Music" |
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On September 10, the Hamptons Festival of Music will perform Bond’s Bridges for orchestra in Wainscott, NY. “Drawn from the folk music of China and America, Bridges is organized around five actual bridges from around the world,” says Bond.
Railroad Trestle uses the motoric rhythm of a train and the sound of a fiddle and banjo playing country music. Stone Bridge is based on a traditional Chinese song called Moli Hua or Jasmine Flower. Golden Gate Bridge recalls the folk music of the 1960's and 70's in California, particularly a song by Joan Baez. Brooklyn Bridge brings together a second meaning of the word "bridge" in that it refers to the "B" or "bridge" section of a be-bop standard, Gershwin's "I Got Rhythm." The work's finale, Mackinac Bridge, is based on the folk song "The Water is Wide" and is named after one of the longest suspension bridges in the Western Hemisphere.
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BUZZ
One of the things that strike me in particular about the insect sounds is that they are so unexpectedly expressive. In the past I had thought of insects as being creatures without true emotions, but these “songs” are deeply emotional. Maybe it’s just anthropomorphic to identify human emotions with those of insects, but I’d like to give them the benefit of the doubt. This is what I am really after with the piece – bringing out what is most expressive in the language of these beasts. I have not manipulated the sounds in any way, being averse to making them sound even more “strange” and exotic than they already are. The commentary on the viola is a dialogue, a conversation suggesting a reaction to those emotions.
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