Composer: Apostolos Paraskevas
Text and Percussion ensemble leader: Ryan Edwards
Narrator: Timothy Hall
Conductor: Christopher Wilkins
Premiere: August 23, 2017.
a Work for Orchestra, narrator, Percussion ensemble and dancers commissioned by the Boston Landmarks Orchestra and performed at the Esplanade Shell in Boston MA on August 23, 2017. "Santiago in the Stream" is based on Ernest Hemingway's book the "Old man and the Sea”. The music describes Santiago's emotions, thoughts and actions in his last journey. The trumpet announces his signature theme accompanied by the brass and strings depicting the seagulls and the sound of the ocean. The magnitude of the vast ocean, the anticipation of catching the fish, memories of a distant waltz and the exciting fight that ends in triumph. Now it's time to return home with his valuable possession. He already won the last and most important fight of his life..