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By Phillip Schroeder.
Surrender to Another is an expression of the act of love, a process in which the individual relinquishes, submits, and surrenders himself to the good of the other, through devotion, adoration, esteem, and intimacy, often resulting in profound emotional and spiritual states ranging from longing to contentment to rapture.
The music is a tribute to the aesthetics of late Romanticism, especially to Gustav Mahler, early Arnold Schoenberg, and Richard Strauss. The composer states, “The decision to write a large work for ten string parts, dividing each section of the traditional string orchestra, did not result from my usual practice of composing for specific performers. The long lyric melodies, opulent harmonies, textures laden with accented dissonances and counter-melodies, intense emotional expression, and aesthetic quality had been resonating in me for years. For a change I wrote something strictly for myself.”
