{"id":888,"date":"2015-08-22T09:26:21","date_gmt":"2015-08-22T13:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christophertrapani.com\/wordpresssite\/?page_id=888"},"modified":"2019-05-20T23:44:12","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T03:44:12","slug":"the-silence-of-a-falling-star","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/christophertrapani.com\/wordpresssite\/the-silence-of-a-falling-star\/","title":{"rendered":"The Silence of a Falling Star Lights Up a Purple Sky"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"container\">\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><strong>The Silence of a Falling Star Lights Up a Purple Sky&nbsp;(2005)<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">for&nbsp;piano [4:40]<\/span><\/h3>\n<hr>\n<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 11px; margin-right: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px; text-align: left;\"><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=1610199504\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/track=1447113366\/transparent=true\/\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newfocusrecordings.bandcamp.com\/album\/christopher-trapani-waterlines\">Christopher Trapani: Waterlines by Christopher Trapani<\/a><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 2\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\" style=\"padding-left: 50px;\">\n<h5><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>&#8220;La nuit, on ne voit pas grande chose sauf les illuminations, mais c&#8217;est normal.&#8221;<\/em>\u2014&nbsp;Notre Dame webcam advisory<\/span><\/h5>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">The human eye can only distinguish color up to a certain frequency of the spectrum, but smaller wavelengths register as distinct shades with other animals. Flowers that appear plain white to us attract bees in differentiated gradients of ultraviolet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">On New Year\u2019s Day, 1953, Hank Williams was found dead, outstretched on the back seat of a Cadillac, yet three of his unreleased singles reached the top of the county charts during the year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>The Silence of a Falling Star Lights Up a Purple Sky<\/em> is a piece about drawing arbitrary borderlines along a continuum. The piece scans the spectrum from bottom up, gathering intensity as it progresses. A sort of seven- chord passacaglia slowly coalesces, snowballing in momentum until it shoots past the final point of perceptibility.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Commissioned by the FleetBoston Celebrity Series and premiered by&nbsp;Sergey Schepkin, 16 April 2005, Jordan Hall, Boston, MA<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 2\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Silence of a Falling Star Lights Up a Purple Sky&nbsp;(2005) for&nbsp;piano [4:40] Christopher Trapani: Waterlines by Christopher Trapani &#8220;La nuit, on ne voit pas grande chose sauf les illuminations,<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/christophertrapani.com\/wordpresssite\/the-silence-of-a-falling-star\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;The Silence of a Falling Star Lights Up a Purple Sky&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-fullpostsnoheader.php","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-888","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - 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