Rothko Echoes for Orchestra

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2024-04-19
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Rothko Echoes represents my reflections from repeated visits to the Rothko Chapel. The Chapel's atmosphere is ethereally calm, stasis-like, and the room seems to breathe as clouds and sunlight shift and change. An undercurrent is always present. What initially appears as a void gradually becomes warmer, brighter, more colorful and calm, even animated. Various figures, faces, objects, the sea and sky begin to appear, amidst endlessly layers rectangles and squares.

Rothko Chapel is both ominous and inviting, a place of darkness and light. Fundamentally it is a place which heals.

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Doctor of Musical Arts
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Rothko, Chapel, Orchestra, Echoes, Zlatkin, Music, Composer
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Zlatkin, Daniel. Rothko Echoes for Orchestra. (2024). PhD diss., Rice University. https://hdl.handle.net/1911/116200

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