OKCD Presents: Orchestral Recapitulations

	Korneitchouk likes teasing his listeners with titles. Everything That Rises Must Converge, he jokes, is a piece that is shorter than its title (though its title is far shorter than the title of his saxophone work!). In less than three minutes the piece coalesces around disparate elements floating in chaos. Gradually, the elements swirl around a driving rhythm that forms a repeating ostinato from which an ascending harmonic progression referenced in the title reaches to the highest range of the strings.
	The title, which perfectly describes the form (and is also the title to a well known short story by Flannery O'Conner), is borrowed from the French writer Teilhard de Chardin - Tout Ce Qui Monte Converge.	The Composer writes in the preface to the score: "The piece is not about melody or rhythm, although it does have an emergent, then insistently repeated 2 measure motive with a quirky 'broken-swing' feel. It is not about harmony, although, too, an ascending tonal harmony appears 2 bars after rehearsal letter D. Rather it is about converging - reaching specific convergent points in the score; converging the feel of simple triple meter with compound duple; converging harmony with the sense of timbre, pattern with melody, chaos with order..."