Date: 1982
Instrumentation: soprano saxophone, piano
Commission: Theresa Witmer
Dedication: For Theresa Witmer
Premiere: 7th World Saxophone Congress. Nurenberg, Germany. Theresa Witmer, saxophone; Marilyn Shrude, piano. July 9, 1982
Publication: Verlag Neue Musik Berlin. NM 2708
Recordings: ATMA Records (1998). ACD 2 2154
Albany Records (2002). Troy 526
Orion Masterworks (1983). ORS 85487
Reviews: “a one-movement chamber tone poem depicting the gradual transformation of nature’s darkness to lightÑnighttime to dawning. Moods of mystery and modernistic performance techniques are usedÑmultiphonics, timbral trills, and the like. Eventually the piano begins passagework reminiscent of shimmering—the first traces of light are apparent; the saxophone trills excitedly and the picture is complete.” S.W.E. Fanfare. Nov./Dec. 1986