[Full Score] NEON NIGHTS for Orchestra -Jules Pegram

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Jules Pegram: NEON NIGHTS for Orchestra
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Donald Crockett, conductor
USC Thornton Symphony Orchestra
Bovard Auditorium
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California
February 9, 2012
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Performances by the Indianapolis Symphony, New World Symphony, and Symphony in C
2013 Symphony in C Young Composers Competition winner
2012 ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composers Competition finalist
2012 Marilyn K. Glick Young Composers Competition winner
2012 Sadye J. Moss Endowed Music Composition Prize
2011 USC New Music for Orchestra selection
Score cover design: Matias Mora
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PROGRAM NOTE
I have always been enamored by the hot, vivid glow of neon lights, particularly those found in Las Vegas and in the South Beach neighborhood of Miami, Florida. The dazzlingly bright element neon, often housed in a variety of colorful, quirky-shaped tubes, proved to be an irresistible subject for a musical composition.
In this ten-minute orchestral showpiece, the listener will be taken on an ever-changing journey through a shimmering, cosmopolitan sound world based on two primary elements-a bright, whimsical melody and an angular ostinato figure. These two motivic ideas return again and again, though they are constantly portrayed in different contexts; often they are bold and bright, at other times cool and mellow.
Although Neon Nights does not adhere to a specific storyline or narrative, I often had specific images and moods in mind. For example, at the onset of the slower middle section, the atmosphere instantly becomes floaty and diaphanous, with sliding gestures and amorphous sounds; here, one might easily imagine being encapsulated within a tube filled with hot neon gas. Similarly, in the last bar of the piece, a loud spark-like clap helps initiate a “smoking” fizzle, depicting a neon tube so bright and full of energy that it bursts open, spilling out its colorful contents and vanishing into the dark.
-Jules Pegram (2011)
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