Death and Disfigurations (NEW)

Death and Disfigurations 1. Not with a bang but a whimper. 2. Painfully Numb 3. Compression Aggression 4. There Will Be Peace

Death and Disfigurations is a “time capsule” tone poem where the music also serves as an historical marker of our current time. An early influence on Scott McAllister’s music was Karel Husa’s Apotheosis of this Earth. Like Husa’s composition, McAllister hopes to illuminate and continue Husa’s idea of “Man’s brutal possession and misuse of nature’s beauty-.” This work will also draw inspiration from Richard Strauss’ Death and Transfiguration where the death of an artist is the story of the composition, but in McAllister’s composition, the death will be humanity. The loss of hope in humankind will be the central focus of this work until the final movement, when hope will be somewhat restored. Like many of Scott McAllister’s compositions, this work will also be inspired by the sound worlds of popular genres and bands like Pink Floyd, Radiohead, and Nirvana as they are woven into the fabric of an eclectic musical quilt of original music for the concert stage.