May 6, 2005
The Music of Life
Composers often look to their hearts for inspiration, but Ryan L. Fraley looked to his liver, his spleen, his appendix -- in fact, every cell of his body -- while writing a symphony that was performed in April in Indianapolis. In a commission for the Ball State University wind ensemble, Mr. Fraley used the human DNA sequence to provide the notes for his new work titled "Genome: Symphony No. 1 for Band."
The idea had been gestating for a while, says Mr. Fraley. "In June of
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