Santa project.

Here's mine. Warning, it's "modern" and I normally allow my things to ferment for at least a month before finalising so it'll be rougher at the edges than I'd like.

The brief was:

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"In a world stricken with climate change, the government deteriorates until their true motives become clear, to look out for the most wealthy Americans. A young man on the side of the fortunate finally wakes up to the injustice he was blind to when he meets a female laborer for his father’s company and sees for himself the horrors of living in an unlivable world with no money. Something has to change, but there are no easy solutions on a planet running a fever. Will he sacrifice everything to be with a lowly laborer and fight for justice or will he return to an insulated life and assume the familial role of oppressor?"

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This is of course the synopsis for a One Act Opera. (Unfortunately, my favourite librettist is in lockdown and the instant opera machine I bought from Rossini needs a refill of quavers - well, he did give it some heavy use - so this "extract" had to do. j/k). This is the interlude between penultimate and closing scenes, mainly a dialog between the lead characters overcoming acerbic differences and perhaps...just perhaps reaching a reconciliation as the harmony increasingly relies on consonances. 

[EDIT] When I tried to load the piece direct it set up the MP3 but also allowed a link back to my computer. Not on - oh no no no! So I lodged it in Soundcloud

Here it is

https://soundcloud.com/acitore/santa-comp

I liked it! Nice textures. Good work!

Interesting to hear it form vertically over time, through a little intro-motivic Klangfarbenmelodie. The middle section with distinctly repeated motives works really well as a checkpoint and divider.

I'm not as well versed on the more contemporary style of composition, but what I can say is that it was a very enjoyable and colorful piece!

A very angular and sharp composition, @Quinn, and quite conversational! The dialogue was very well-done and the sonorities you used were superbly tasteful. I normally can't stomach contemporary music such as this, but I actually enjoyed every second of your work! (That's high praise, at least it is intended to be, lol.)

Fine work, sir!

Thank you all for these generous comments. Much appreciated. I'm pleased it made some kind of sense.  

Thank you for listening and commenting, and may I apologise for not answering you separately. 

Sincerely, 

Quinn.