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Be Here Now by Jonathan Chenette

Premiere performance in September 2024 of Jonathan Chenette's composition Be Here Now for ten instruments (also known as a "decet" or "dectet"). The venue is Skinner Recital Hall in the Department of Music at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York. Eduardo Navega conducts an ensemble drawn from top players in the Hudson Valley and New York City. Inspired by sonic imagery found, surprisingly, in a hiking guidebook, the music begins with small groups of hikers setting out at slow but steady and then double-time paces. Soon, instrument groups associate with components of the natural environment: wind instruments with rocks, for instance, and strings with trees. The music responds to guidebook author Edward Henry’s evocations of bellowing boulders, bold staccato rocks, muted forests, lifting melodies, spreading counter-melodies, and harmonizing ridges along the path to a rock promontory in New York’s Shawangunk Mountains known as Gertrude’s Nose. “The crescendos of rock continue to grow, and the forest interludes fade into the background as the land builds to a climax,” culminating in what Henry calls the “final stanza” from the “natural orchestra” (Gunks Trails, 2003). As for the title of Be Here Now, it comes most directly from a hand-painted sign of mysterious origin greeting hikers near the start of a path to a wilderness area near Santa Fé, New Mexico (appended to the end of this video). The title also borrows from yoga guru Ram Dass's influential 1971 book of the same title. Its advice to “be here now” is as germane to music listeners as to hikers or yoga practitioners. Forego the distractions of modern life and be fully present in this place and this moment.