Jalbert, Pierre2024-05-222024-05-222024-052024-04-19May 2024Zlatkin, Daniel. Rothko Echoes for Orchestra. (2024). PhD diss., Rice University. https://hdl.handle.net/1911/116200https://hdl.handle.net/1911/116200Rothko 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.application/pdfengCopyright is held by the author, unless otherwise indicated. Permission to reuse, publish, or reproduce the work beyond the bounds of fair use or other exemptions to copyright law must be obtained from the copyright holder.RothkoChapelOrchestraEchoesZlatkinMusicComposerThesis2024-05-22