Rhapsody
by Bobby Previte
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The Lost/When I Land
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In 2015, I received the Greenfield Prize in music at the Hermitage Artist Retreat to create a new work. Terminals Part II: In Transit (or RHAPSODY) is the result. RHAPSODY is the second in a three-part series exploring the experience of travel. Terminals Part I: DEPARTURES, is a set of five concertos written for the visionary percussion group SO Percussion and five improvisers. This piece premiered at Merkin Hall in New York City in 2011 and the recording was released on Cantaloupe Music in 2014. In RHAPSODY, the improvisers from DEPARTURES, each of whom had been selected based on their ability to separately carry fifteen-minute concertos, were treated as ‘found objects’ and thrown together into one ensemble.
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RHAPSODY (TERMINALS PART II: IN TRANSIT)
In 2016, I received the Greenfield Prize in Music to create Part 2 of a trilogy exploring the experience of travel. Part 1, TERMINALS (TERMINALS PART I: DEPARTURES), was a set of five concertos written for the landmark percussion group, SO Percussion, and five of my favorite improvisers. TERMINALS premiered at Merkin Hall in New York City and the recording was re- leased on Cantaloupe Music in 2015.
For Part 2, RHAPSODY (TERMINALS PART II: IN TRANSIT) I took the improvisers from Part 1, each selected solely on their ability to carry a fifteen-minute concerto as a soloist, and instead placed them all into one ensemble: a group of musicians as found objects.
I have been obsessed with airplanes, terminals, and air travel since childhood. As teenagers we would sneak onto the runway at the Niagara Falls Airport (!) and lie down on the grass as the jets roared over us. Now, as an adult sitting in a plane on my way to concerts, I find myself opening the seat-pocket magazine and staring at the architectural diagrams of airport terminals. I am fascinated with their graphic representations of transient spaces that I regularly inhabit. These are my cathedrals.
What is the experience of being in transit? You are somewhere on a path between where you have been and where you are going, on a fixed schedule, with a fixed amount of fuel. Separated from your home but not yet at your destination, you are neither here nor there. Anonymous, yet confined with strangers in an intimate space for a predetermined amount of time. Uncomfortable, yet somehow free. To travel is to be bound with your fellow travelers by faith — faith in your vessel, in those that made, maintain, and operate it, and ultimately, faith in those other strangers waiting at your destination, into whose arms you must land.
— Bobby Previte
RHAPSODY
1 - Casting Off
2 - All The World
3 - The Lost
4 - When I Land
5 - The Timekeeper
6 - Coming About
7 - All Hands
8 - Last Stand/Final Approach
9 - I Arrive
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Sep 2017
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Aug 2025
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Jan 2025
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