Thea Musgrave: Night Windows (Oboe/Piano)

Walking down a darkened street it?s hard to resist looking in through lighted windows and catching a glimpse of other people?s lives. The imagination lingers?Night Windows is the title of a painting by Edward Hopper of a scene in one such lighted window. However the scenes in this work ? though reflecting something of the loneliness in so many of the Hopper paintings ? are all imaginary: highly charged emotional moments.Loneliness: Anger: Nostalgia: Despair: FrenzyThis work was commissioned by the International Double Reed Society and it is dedicated to Nicholas Daniel.

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