Rosa de Sal (trumpet and orchestra)

Program Notes This version of Rosa de Sal for trumpet and orchestra is an arrangement of my original setting for soprano and piano of Pablo Neruda’s Sonnet 17 in the original Spanish. It conjures up the dark, evocative language of Neruda, that touches on the unspoken and unnamable aspects of love, using the constantly shifting … Read more

Rosa de Sal

Program Notes A setting of Pablo Neruda’s Sonnet 17 in the original Spanish, this setting matches the dark, evocative language of Neruda with a constantly shifting tonality of Raag Puriya Dhanashree. Recording Text The original poem and translation are available here. Premiere/Performances This piece was commissioned by Nirav Kamdar. Press/Reviews