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INFERNO Inferno was composed in 1988 for the Northwind Ensemble in Chicago and has undergone two revisions, the first was very minor, rescoring the tenor saxophone for soprano, the second adding piano, “metrifying” some of the aleatorics, and increasing rhythmic interest towards the end of the piece. This work, in its orchestral version, is the opening piece of my 3 Pieces for Chamber Orchestra, based on Dante’s Divine Comedy. The work as heard here features a cornet, soprano saxophone, and (nominally) a bass trombone. About two-thirds of the work was originally aleatoric and is therefore texture-based, though the featured instruments frequently arise from that texture with melodic fragments that seem both to “direct traffic” and to comment on what is happening. The climactic vocal texture, which propels the work to its close, is sung by the instrumentalists from within the ensemble, who resume their normal duties at the resolution.
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