PART II.
ORCHESTRA

FETES is one of a set of three Orchestral Nocturnes, each of which has a pictorial idea as its basis.
The composer told us that in this piece he had tried to suggest in music 'the restless dancing rhythm of the atmosphere, interspersed with sudden flashes of light.' There is also a dazzling procession that he imagines passing in glory across the sky.
His aim, then, is to give in terms of sound, imaginative impressions of the rhythmic effects of light and of cloud formations.