Michael Torke’s “Bloom 2, Morning”: Music for Percussion Ensemble
Bloom, the newest album by American composer Michael Torke (b. 1961), will be released on August 30. The eleven movement work was written for, and recorded by, Sandbox Percussion. With an exuberant, infectious rhythmic groove, Bloom develops over three musical “days,” with movements titled “morning, noon, night.” With repeating patterns, it rides the visceral pulse of the contemporary dance floor. In his program note, the composer writes, BLOOM uses interlocking rhythms which, when …