Dream Vapors Suite (Live)
Rain Worthington composer
Armenian State Symphony Orchestra
Elias Peter Brown conductor
Music can possess the power to take hold of our emotions, guiding us along an imagined journey that stirs our inner being, a concurrently unique and familiar experience. Critically-acclaimed composer Rain Worthington writes music to captivate the listener, creating textural and lyrical worlds that are inhabited by various colors and tones. In this live performance of her piece Dream Vapors Suite from the Armenian State Symphony Orchestra, the composer presents intense dreams, intangible perceptions, and musically evocative elaborations.
Performance Video
Armenian State Symphony Orchestra performing Dream Vapors Suite
Track Listing & Credits
| # | Title | Composer | Performer | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Dream Vapors Suite: I. Tracing a Dream | Rain Worthington | Armenian State Symphony Orchestra | Elias Brown, conductor | 9:09 |
| 02 | Dream Vapors Suite: II. Reversing Mirrors in the Quiet | Rain Worthington | Armenian State Symphony Orchestra | Elias Brown, conductor | 6:04 |
| 03 | Dream Vapors Suite: III. Of Time Remembered | Rain Worthington | Armenian State Symphony Orchestra | Elias Brown, conductor | 9:44 |
Recorded April 20, 2022 at Aram Khachaturian Hall in Yerevan, Armenia
Session Engineer Levon Navasardyan
Production Director Levi Brown
Production Manager Jean Noël Attard
Mastering Melanie Montgomery
Video Production Root Media
Executive Producer Bob Lord
VP of A&R Brandon MacNeil
A&R Chris Robinson
VP of Production Jan Košulič
Audio Director Lucas Paquette
Production Manager Martina Watzková
VP, Design & Marketing Brett Picknell
Art Director Ryan Harrison
Design Edward A. Fleming
Publicity Aidan Curran
Digital Marketing Manager Brett Iannucci
Artist Information
Rain Worthington
Believing that creativity is an elemental and essential part of human nature, Rain Worthington has followed her own instinctive path. Self-taught and cross-disciplinary, her creative impulses include concert music and sculptural spaces for attentive reflection. American Record Guide notes a focus of “deep interiority” from “a composer of considerable imagination, emotional expressiveness, and poetic sensibility.”
Armenian State Symphony Orchestra
The Armenian State Symphony Orchestra was created in 2005 by Sergey Smbatyan, the present Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the orchestra. From the very onset of its existence, the orchestra has been home to bright and energetic musicians, assembled around the shared vision of amplifying the cultural awareness in Armenia and elevating the spiritual excellence of human nature by the power of classical music.
Elias Brown
Elias Peter Brown works as a conductor, composer, improviser, and curator, seeking to create meaningful spaces for listening in and out of the concert hall. He has been named a Salonen Fellow for 2023/24, where he will be personally mentored by Esa-Pekka Salonen and serve as assistant conductor at the San Francisco Symphony, while also working as assistant conductor with the Colburn Conservatory Orchestra in the Nagaunee Conducting Program.
Notes
The three movements of Dream Vapors Suite are explorations into the impressionistic logic of emotions and dreams. Within this realm there is a fluidity of connections and sequences that is governed by emotional contexts, rather than rational order. With the shifting intangibility of perceptions and ephemerality of memories, unexpected juxtapositions can arise. The “vapors” in the title refers to the residual emotions and imagery from dreams that can linger subliminally to resurface throughout the day.
– Rain Worthington
