Lindveit: Desire Lines

Composer: Ryan Lindveit Instrumentation: Concert Band Work: Desire Lines (2024) Binding: Pages: 27 Description Desire Lines, Ryan Lindveit (2024) 8' for wind ensemble Grade 5 Desire Lines are the informal footpaths that hikers make as a shortcut on a trail to avoid a longer route. They reflect a collective motivation to reach the destination more quickly, and in the context of a mountain trail, they reflect a yearning desire to make it to the peak. While writing this piece I was thinking about desire lines, desire itself, hiking in the Smoky Mountains, Rachel Carson's love letters, Emily Dickinson's Master Poems, emotional longing, Impressionism, synchronicity, free will, love, and zigzagging lyricism. The piece has three peaks, each a bit bigger than the last. in my mind, I relate these climaxes metaphorically to three stages on a mountain hike. The first peak reflects the feeling of excited anticipation when you can see the summit from the base of the hike. The second