Between the Garden and the Wilderness
SKU:
AC-009-CS
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Composer: Andrew Cote
Duration: 6:30
Scoring: soprano saxophone, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone
Materials: score and set of parts (8.5 x 11)
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Duration: 6:30
Scoring: soprano saxophone, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone
Materials: score and set of parts (8.5 x 11)
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Are you interested in a digital version of this title?
Program Note
Between the Garden and the Wilderness was commissioned by the MANA Saxophone Trio and is scored for soprano, alto, and tenor saxophones. Lasting approximately six minutes and thirty seconds, the work explores a landscape of musical contrasts and transitions, moving between moments of calm and intensity, lyricism and friction.
The title Between the Garden and the Wilderness draws on a metaphor later referenced by Thomas Jefferson in his writings on the separation of church and state, in which the garden represents the realm of faith and the wilderness the domain of civil authority. At the time of composition, I was living in the Washington, DC area and working professionally within a church, circumstances that made the idea deeply personal. The work includes a veiled quotation of the hymn Be Thou My Vision, intentionally obscured and fragmented, reflecting the ways in which sacred texts and symbols are often distorted when absorbed into political rhetoric. This tension between sincerity and misuse, devotion and power, shapes the expressive trajectory of the piece and underscores its reflection on the fragile boundary between belief and authority.
— Andrew Cote
The title Between the Garden and the Wilderness draws on a metaphor later referenced by Thomas Jefferson in his writings on the separation of church and state, in which the garden represents the realm of faith and the wilderness the domain of civil authority. At the time of composition, I was living in the Washington, DC area and working professionally within a church, circumstances that made the idea deeply personal. The work includes a veiled quotation of the hymn Be Thou My Vision, intentionally obscured and fragmented, reflecting the ways in which sacred texts and symbols are often distorted when absorbed into political rhetoric. This tension between sincerity and misuse, devotion and power, shapes the expressive trajectory of the piece and underscores its reflection on the fragile boundary between belief and authority.
— Andrew Cote
Reproduction Notice:
This program note may be freely reproduced in concert programs, provided that proper credit is given to the composer.
This program note may be freely reproduced in concert programs, provided that proper credit is given to the composer.