Instrumentation: 2022-4200-2perc-hp-strings
Andrew Price, oboe
Max Hobart, Music Director
Civic Symphony Orchestra of Boston
Premiere performance: April 30, 2006
Fine Arts Center, Regis College
Weston, Massachusetts

I. Summer
Adagio. The music begins with a sunrise. Allegro. Persephone rushes into the warm summer air and does a pas seul.

II. Autumn Scherzo.
Pluto sees Persephone, grabs her, and takes her into his world beneath the Earth.

III. Winter Adagio.
It is night. Persephone laments and misses her mother, Demeter. Moderato. Pluto asks Persephone to marry him. She says yes.
[In a ballet libretto this would be the grand pas de deux.]

IV. Spring Allegro.
Pluto allows Persephone to visit her mother. Flowers grow again and leaves appear on branches. The air is warm. Persephone embraces her mother and dances joyously in the glow of the sun.

© Departed Feathers Music, BMI