Soundings (Williams)

It was commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic for the inaugural season of the Walt Disney Concert Hall.

[1][2][3][4] Soundings has a duration of roughly 15 minutes and is composed in one continuous movement divided into five sections: Williams described his inspiration for the piece in the score program notes, remarking, "In writing Soundings, I've tended to think of it as an experimental piece for Walt Disney Concert Hall in which a collection of colorful sonorities could be sampled in the Los Angeles Philharmonic's new environment.

Williams cleverly created the amazing illusion of instruments traveling about this listening space.

Reviewing a 2016 performance at David Geffen Hall, Woolfe described the music as being "thoroughly outclassed" by other works on the program (which included Alberto Ginastera's Piano Concerto No.

1 and Andrew Norman's Play), adding that it was "never less and never more than professional, without a moment of the sparkling originality that permeates the work of Ginastera and Mr.