Galindo: Darkness Is Not Dark for You

Description

Composer's Note:

Commissioned the Gabriela Lena Frank Creative Academy of Music for Stanton Nelson and written during the COVID shutdown, the piece takes a line from Psalm 139 as its title, interpreted as looking toward hope within darkness, that with the Most High, nothing is dark. The musical work itself uses the concept of theme and variations, but in a more expanded and abstract manner. Various moods and characters give the listener a journey of peaks and valleys that culminates with a wholehearted song-like melody.