Douglas Geers
Reality House


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Reality House is a single-movement chamber music work (ca. sixteen minutes) scored for flute/piccolo, B-flat clarinet/bass clarinet, trombone, violin, viola, cello, and double bass. The title of the work is taken from the name of a methadone clinic/homeless shelter located on 125th Street, Manhattan, a few blocks from my apartment. Musically, the piece explores waves and shifts of energy, mixing consistency and progression with incongruous intrusions and mutations.

The recording excerpted here is from the premiere performance of Reality House, played by Ensemble Fa at Miller Theatre, New York City, on December 9, 1998.

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