Listen to One Night’s Slumber * * Audio renditions use sounds from Sibelius Sound Essentials and therefore may not fully represent the intention of the music or the intended final outcome.
From a simple, sweet lullaby to the first stages of sleep, the nightmares begin to creep in. A disturbance in the night’s rest, stabbing visions of the dark that the dreamer tries to ward off. But the dreamer knows: it’s just a dream. It’s their dream. And when the nightmares go away only the wonderful release of a blissful dream exists just before it’s time to wake. One Night’s Slumber is a musical journey through a night’s sleep where anything can happen in one’s dreams. It is a subtly difficult show. It’s not a chop-fest. Instead, 2-hand independence, polyrhythms, extreme over-the-bar phrasing, sensitive-to-the-touch battery parts, intricate counter rhythms, ostinatos, and extreme changes in dynamics all require high-end musicianship to make this piece look easy. This is a musician’s piece of music that will enchant audiences and lend itself to a visual treat.