The Unchanging Sea

A music-film project
MICHAEL GORDON and BILL MORRISON
SEATTLE SYMPHONY, Pablo Rus Broseta
Tomoko Mukaiyama, piano
CD
The Unchanging Sea (28:54)
Beijing Harmony (14:39)

DVD
The Unchanging Sea Directed by Bill Morrison

SEATTLE SYMPHONY
Pablo Rus Broseta, conductor

Recorded in the S. Mark Taper Foundation Auditorium,

Benaroya Hall, Seattle, WA

The Unchanging Sea was recorded live in concert on May 13, 2016.
Beijing Harmony was recorded on May 16, 2017.

Recorded, edited, mixed and mastered by Dmitriy Lipay

The Unchanging Sea was commissioned by the Seattle Symphony as part of its
Sonic Evolution project, which celebrates the past and future of Seattle’s music
scene, and by the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra.

Beijing Harmony was commissioned by the National Centre for the

Performing Arts, Beijing, for the ‘Composing China’ project.
LUDOVIC MORLOT Harriet Overton Stimson Music Director
Thomas Dausgaard, Principal Guest Conductor
Joseph Crnko, Associate Conductor for Choral Activities
Pablo Rus Broseta, Douglas F. King Associate Conductor
Gerard Schwarz, Rebecca & Jack Benaroya Conductor Laureate

FIRST VIOLIN SECOND VIOLIN Mara Gearman

Open Position Elisa Barston Timothy Hale
David & Amy Fulton Concertmaster Principal Vincent Comer
Emma McGrath** Michael Miropolsky^ Penelope Crane
Clowes Family Associate Concertmaster John & Carmen Delo Wes Dyring
Cordula Merks^ Assistant Principal Second Violin Sayaka Kokubo
Assistant Concertmaster Kathleen Boyer Rachel Swerdlow
Simon James¬ Gennady Filimonov Julie Whitton
Second Assistant Concertmaster Evan Anderson Allison Farkas*
Jennifer Bai Natasha Bazhanov
CELLO
Mariel Bailey Brittany Boulding
Efe Baltacıgil
Cecilia Poellein Buss Stephen Bryant
Marks Family Foundation Principal Cello
Ayako Gamo Linda Cole
Meeka Quan DiLorenzo
Timothy Garland Xiao-po Fei Assistant Principal
Leonid Keylin Artur Girsky Supported by their children in memory
Mae Lin Andrew Yeung of Helen and Max Gurvich
Mikhail Shmidt Nathan Chan
Clark Story VIOLA
Eric Han
John Weller Susan Gulkis Assadi
Bruce Bailey
Jeannie Wells Yablonsky PONCHO Principal Viola
Roberta Hansen Downey
Arthur Zadinsky Arie Schächter^
Walter Gray
Assistant Principal
Vivian Gu OBOE CONTRABASSOON
Joy Payton-Stevens Mary Lynch Mike Gamburg
David Sabee Principal
Supported by anonymous donors HORN
BASS Ben Hausmann¬^ Jeffrey Fair
Jordan Anderson Associate Principal Charles Simonyi Principal Horn
Mr. & Mrs. Harold H. Heath Chengwen Winnie Lai Mark Robbins
Principal String Bass Stefan Farkas Associate Principal
Joseph Kaufman Jonathan Karschney
Assistant Principal ENGLISH HORN Assistant Principal
Ted Botsford Stefan Farkas John Turman
Jonathan Burnstein Adam Iascone
Jennifer Godfrey CLARINET Cara Kizer°
Travis Gore Benjamin Lulich
Jonathan Green Mr. & Mrs. Paul R. Smith Principal Clarinet TRUMPET
Laura DeLuca David Gordon
FLUTE Dr. Robert Wallace Clarinet The Boeing Company Principal Trumpet
Open Position Eric Jacobs Alexander White
Principal Sean Osborn* Assistant Principal
Supported by David J. and Shelley Geoffrey Bergler
Hovind E-FLAT CLARINET Gabriel Palmer*
Jeffrey Barker¬^ Laura DeLuca
Associate Principal TROMBONE
Judy Washburn Kriewall BASS CLARINET Ko-ichiro Yamamoto
Zartouhi Dombourian-Eby Eric Jacobs Principal
Robin Peery* David Lawrence Ritt
BASSOON Stephen Fissel
PICCOLO Seth Krimsky
Zartouhi Dombourian-Eby Principal BASS TROMBONE
Robert & Clodagh Ash Piccolo Paul Rafanelli Stephen Fissel
Mike Gamburg
TUBA ASSISTANT PERSONNEL
Christopher Olka** MANAGER
Principal Keith Higgins
Andy Abel*¬
LIBRARY
TIMPANI Patricia Takahashi-Blayney
Michael Crusoe Principal Librarian
Principal Robert Olivia
Matthew Decker Associate Librarian
Assistant Principal Jeanne Case
Librarian
PERCUSSION Rachel Swerdlow
Michael A. Werner Assistant Librarian
Principal
Michael Clark¬ TECHNICAL DIRECTOR
Matthew Decker Joseph E. Cook
Rob Tucker*
ARTIST IN ASSOCIATION
HARP Dale Chihuly
Valerie Muzzolini Gordon
Principal HONORARY MEMBER
Supported by Eliza and Brian Shelden Cyril M. Harris †

KEYBOARD
+ Resident
Kimberly Russ, piano+**
† In Memoriam
Joseph Adam, organ+
** On Leave
^ Principal on The Unchanging Sea
PERSONNEL MANAGER
¬ Principal on Beijing Harmony
Scott Wilson
* Extra Musician
° Temporary Musician
 The Unchanging Sea (2018, 30 min)
A film by BILL MORRISON, music by MICHAEL GORDON

The film The Unchanging Sea (2018) was inspired by the discovery of a decaying print of DW Griffith’s
The Unchanging Sea (1910) in the nitrate vaults of the Library of Congress. Taking this ancient title as its point
of departure, a new narrative was re-assembled from a variety of similarly ancient films about going off to,
and returning from, the Sea. The characters in these old films appear to be emerging from the roiling oceans
of Time, having floated like messages in bottles for over one hundred years, and now having washed up on our
shores to tell us their stories.

A story told in waves:

A woman falls asleep on a rocky shore
She dreams of her youth as a girl on the beach
She flirted with one man, and was threatened by another
She watched men go off to sea, in small boats, and in great ships
One ship passed another going the opposite direction.
On the passing boat, a man strode the first class deck
He saw a woman traveling below on the third class deck
The woman dreamt of having money and traveling in first class.
A sudden storm sunk the ship.
Rescue boats were dispatched.
Some survived, and some perished.
Some were reunited, and others were forsaken.
The sleeping woman awoke to find
the rising tide now surrounded the rock
on which she had fallen asleep.
Michael Gordon’s music is published by Red Poppy, Ltd.
and administered worldwide by G. Schirmer, Inc. (ASCAP).

Thanks to: Elena Dubinets, Simon Woods, Tomoko

Mukaiyama, Patrick Xiaolong Ren, Sharon Zhu, Kristjan
Jarvi, Paul Gordon (The Library and Archives Canada
Preservation Centre), Mike Mashon and Geo. Willeman (US
Library of Congress National Audio-Visual Conservation
Center), Kenny Savelson, Tim Thomas, Philippa Thompson,
Sruly Lazaros, Mike McCurdy, Bill Murphy, Adam Cuthbert
and Brian Petuch.

Executive Producers: Michael Gordon, David Lang,

Kenny Savelson and Julia Wolfe
Label Manager: Bill Murphy
Cantaloupe sales manager: Adam Cuthbert
Art direction: Denise Burt | elevator-design.dk
Artwork: Digital collages by Denise Burt using images
from The Unchanging Sea by Bill Morrison
DVD menus: John Brown | cloud chamber

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