At A Glance
Bay Area composer Jens Ibsen was inspired by the British rock band Rolo Tomassi in writing Drowned in Light. The first movement features electric guitar, drums, and other hardcore sounds, while the second movement is more lyrical and yearning.
Tautly concentrated and quite short, Igor Stravinsky’s Symphony in Three Movements nonetheless feels big. The composer admitted the influence of movies in the first and third movements, of a documentary on scorched-earth tactics in China in the former, of newsreel footage of goose-stepping soldiers in the latter.