Solace: A Lyric Concerto

Joe Lulloff with the MSU Symphony Band, David Thornton, conductor

Snows Always Melts

 

On Joy, On Sorrow

On Joy, On Sorrow (Running Time: 5:32) is a Synched Video that attempts to abstractly convey the interdependent relationship of two disparate emotions. This work is personal in nature and stems from observing events in life that have led to recognizing the conceptual threads that run between Joy and Sorrow. Whether that is in the gain and loss that comes with age, or our current political and economic climate, Joy and Sorrow are intrinsically tied to one another. To quote the Lebanese Poet Kahlil Gibran, “Your Joy is your Sorrow unmasked.” The two videos are intended to be experienced as having a dialog with one another with audio and video components, at times, emphasizing one side over the other and at other times seamlessly meshed together in a uniform dance. The fluid nature of this work contains very little concrete imagery and relies heavily upon the viewer’s imagination to complete the piece. Although, created to be viewed on two screens, this piece may be presented as a single channel video. The audio component is an original musical score created in collaboration with Composer Joel Love for this piece.