OKCD Presents: Orchestral Recapitulations

	The most salient feature of Symphony "Passage" is that it employs the aid of a second conductor as a strategy to counterpoint different strands of music in autonomous tempi simultaneously at key points throughout the piece, such as to ratchet up the stretto that leads to the final climatctic "Glorious" unification.	The idea is not new, but the challenge is singularly daunting. Musicians of the large orchestra must be aware of which of the two conductors they must follow at any given moment while not be distracted by the other; the piece requires a full score for each conductor that records the actions of both flows of music (difficult for even computer generated notation software); and the parts must be meticulously annotated. Thus the group of instruments is reorganizing itself into one or two differently constituted ensembles continuously.
		The "passage" referred to in the title is one from W. Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage: "as a weaver elaborated his pattern for no end but the pleasure of his aesthetic sense so might a man look at his life, that it makes a pattern."