Шаблон:Short descriptionDesert Transport is a symphonic poem by the American composer Mason Bates. The work was commissioned by the Arizona Music Festival and was completed in 2010. It was premiered in February 2011 by the Arizona Music Festival Orchestra under conductor Robert Moody.[1][2]
Desert Transport is composed in a single movement and has a duration of roughly 13 minutes. The piece was inspired by a helicopter flight over the Arizona landscape. In the score program notes, Bates described the work as "combin[ing] mechanistic rhythmic figuration and expansive desert sonorities."[1]
Reviewing the world premiere, Richard Nilsen of The Arizona Republic wrote, "The music, lasting a short and pleasant quarter-hour, takes us on a sonic helicopter ride over Sedona and Montezuma Castle. It is not the best piece Bates ever wrote, but it was a crowd pleaser."[2] Mark Kanny of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review described the composition as "accessible music full of creativity on many dimensions — from sonority to inventive developments within his thematic material."[3] Andrew Druckenbrod of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette lauded, "Although it includes a recording of Pima Indian song in the last movement, the work is devoid of Mr. Bates' usual electronica but none of his characteristic imagination." He continued:Шаблон:Quote
