Keeping Faith - New Brunswick Youth Orchestra - page 18

The centerpiece of theNBYOCommemorationTour is the orchestralwork,
“ADreamofDawn”, by respectedCanadian composerKevinLau, commissionedby
theNBYO tomark the 100th anniversaryof the beginningof theFirstWorldWar. 
Laudescribes the commission as a project of gratitude, a commemoration, throughmusic, of a
generationwho served and sacrificed.  “My intention”, saidLau, “is not topaint amusical portrait
ofwar, or to literalize a particular chronology of events, but rather to compliment—inmeditative
fashion—the reflections of those listeners ponderingwar in all its paradoxical facets.
“My goal, throughmusic, is to recognize thehorrors of human conflictwhile
affirmingour profound search for harmony inourselves and abroad.”
What better path tofindingharmony thanbyharnessing the idealism, genius, hope andpromise of our
youth, tobuild theworldofwhich their century-old counterparts couldonlydream– a dreamof dawn.
ADreamofDawn
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