Symphony No. 11 (7 Rituals of Music)

Henry Cowell's Seven Rituals Of Man uses music to explore the journey of Man from Birth to Death similar to the All the world’s a stage monologue from Shakespeare’s As You Like It.

Symphony No.11 reflectsthe work and struggle, love, dance and play mystical imagination and lament for death, all the stages of a man's life. The seven rituals are all very different and alternate between relatively conventional scoring forstrings and winds and some really unusual writing for full orchestra with extensive percussion.