Description
This is a slightly shorter version for conventional string orchestra of the same work for massed strings. It is inspired by the poem "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" by Samuel Colleridge where the unwarranted killing of an albatross initiates the doom for all on board a ship in the distant ocean. Only the mariner, who was the perpetrator of this deed, was spared. The sentiment of loss and grace pervades the work. The faster section pictures the ship as it is tossed to and fro by the merciless ocean.