Reminiscences of Tranquillity
for harp

Reminiscences of Tranquility was composed during the first months of 2002. When writing it I was faced with two challenges. The first was to define the musical ideas, materials and sound-environment in ways that would best fir my melodic-harmonic language and yet be consistent with the construction logic of the harp and not create unreasonable difficulties that could in turn impair the musical flow. The second challenge was to find the emotional-structural framework that could bridge between the intimate nature of the instrument and the stormy period during which the work was composed, a time of terror, violence and fearful anxieties. The dialogue with the harp has served for me as a sort of mental refuge. The work's title - Reminiscence of Tranquility - comes to express the yearning for other, more delicate musical and emotional values. And when they are absent from the immediate surrounding reality, we turn to search for them in our inner being.

Yinam Leef