Lisa Neher - Icy Celestial (Excerpt)

Lisa Neher’s Icy Celestial Bodies was a result of the Iowa Composer Forums “Hammers and Mallets“ concert series (2017). “Icy Celestial Bodies expresses the distant loneliness of a comet’s path through space through shimmering bowed passages and delicate, sparkling chords. Rushes of rapid notes evoke the excitement of approaching the sun, which produces melting and the comet’s signature gas tail. The gravitational pull of the sun produces momentum which unwinds and fades away as the comet embarks on its next orbit.“ This is a live recording from the 2017 concert series performance at the University of Northern Iowa, Davis Hall.