FANTASY
AN EPIC ROMANCE
by William Call
Three Connected Movements
for Piano and Orchestra
"All art constantly aspires toward the condition of music."
-Walter Pater
Words, images and actions, however metaphorical or symbolic they may be, also convey concrete meanings. Orchestral program music, by contrast, although it is able to portray emotions associated with events and suggest extramusical narratives, is unable to state concrete meanings. Listeners are accordingly free to picture in their minds images and events they may imagine even as they acquaint themselves with the musical themes, motives and ideas that make up the content of the music.
Romanticism Today
An epic is an extended narrative descriptive of imaginary
characters, adventurous acts and romantic occurrences.
A romance is a story or legend often depicting events that
occur in unfamiliar places and are suggestive of both
venturesome and erotic encounters.
Romanticism is a literary, artistic, and philosophical
movement especially prominent in Europe and America from
about 1800 to 1840 that emphasized a new freedom in the way
artistry was formulated, imagined and expressed.
Expressions of Romanticism continue to appear in modern
artistic forms in contrast to the more abstruse, cerebral and
abstract works of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
"All art constantly aspires toward the condition of music."
-Walter Pater
The Performers
Fantasy: An Epic Romance
Piano - Nathan Schaumann
Woodwinds
Bassoon - Brian Hicks
Bb Clarinet - Daron Bradford
Flute - Jeannine Goeckeritz
Oboe - Justin Torres
Brass
French Horn - Brian Blanchard
Trumpet - Shane Turner
1st Violin
Elizabeth Cox
Melissa Draper
Claire Petersen
2nd Violin
Elizabeth Cox
Melissa Draper
Claire Petersen
David Price
Viola
Emily Brown
Gina Conelly
Cello
Thor Call
Nathan Cox
Contrabass
Eric Hansen
Percussion
Matthew Coleman
Proclamation of a Romantic
a poem by William Call
Proclamation of a Romantic
O to break the chains of formality
and go beyond the proper and fitting,
to let go'f the prize of obedience
and of life's night-sitting
in the chambers of domesticity
and transcend the ways of home allegiance,
to reach out and grasp love, savoring it,
hoping that fore'er more
I will live my life to the very core!
Full Orchestral Score 2020
© 2000 William Call
All Rights Reserved
This music may not be performed, recorded, reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without prior permission of the copyright holder. Composed August to October 2000
Revisions 2008, 2020
Title Page Art: Berthe Morisot with a Bouquet of Violets, Edouard Manet
Instrumentation
2222, 22, timpani, percussion, piano, strings