Soundings from the Heart's Chambers by Martin Max Schreiner, composer published on 2022-06-24T01:55:39Z Soundings from the Heart’s Chambers is intended to be a hopeful and uplifting listening experience. The impact of the pandemic of the past two-plus years in combination with heightened political unrest and other simultaneous crises across the globe has challenged our expectations and worn down our spirits. With this in mind, I chose to respond to the Lowell Chamber Orchestra’s 2022 call for scores with a work intended to inspire hope and lift our spirits. Within its compact 9.5-minute time frame, this suite progresses through four brief movements: Hope, Waves of Doubt, Garnering Trust, and A Leap of Faith. To musically signal renewed hope, the opening measures of the first movement return in the final movement after this work’s climactic musical depiction of a leap of faith forward. The middle two movements of the work aim to convey progress back to a renewed state of hope and trust. The second movement’s lumbering two-layered bass line is anchored around E. The upper instrumental voices ebb and flow in a repeating musical gesture tethered to the bass and never escape the harmonic pull of E (as if immobilized in doubt). This movement ends with a rhythmically tenuous cadence on E minor further signifying the experience of doubt. The third movement gradually unfolds into a brighter mood and arrives at a strong confident final cadence on C major which sets up the final movement’s expressive sonic gesture of a leap of faith. The audio here is produced with NotePerformer from my Sibelius score writing program. Genre Classical Comment by Axel Menningen A great masterpiece! Excellent!👌 2024-04-20T22:56:49Z Comment by Patros15 Nice piece 2024-01-09T16:53:00Z Comment by Pamela Illanes-Tatsuoka Composer Such a beautiful composition!! 2024-01-08T20:01:14Z Comment by firmu Wonderful fluent writing! 2022-07-20T22:37:47Z Comment by Christopher Larkins | Composer A powerful start to this section, transitioning into a hopeful and uplifting end indeed. Good luck. 2022-07-09T00:28:09Z Comment by Christopher Larkins | Composer Excellent work Martin. I'm enjoying listening. 2022-07-09T00:22:11Z Comment by No Mates Ensemble stunning writing, much appreciated 2022-06-24T08:40:31Z