Sunday Morning is the second of Four Sea Interludes, a suite from Peter Grimes by Benjamin Britten. The visual interpretation of the piece takes off from a very simple composition - an edge of a building (looking upwards), and the seam it shares with the sky. Like a clock beginning to tick, the piece starts to develop rhythmically into a celebration of waves, boat masts and birds, increasingly interspersed with spikier and more aggressive shapes, which progressively slow the pace down, forcing the various elements to conform.
 

Animation approx. 4 min

Commissioned for live performance by The New World Symphony Orchestra, Miami Beach, USA.
www.nws.edu

World premiere: Miami Beach, The Lincoln Theater, 9 May 2009
Conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas with the New World Symphony.