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Composer: Pat Livingstone Title: Sound Reversal Instrumentation: Clarinet quartet - 3 Bb, Bass Duration: 5 minutes Difficulty: Good amateur Technical Issues: May need a conductor due to the frequent time changes. The first part goes up to high C - and octave and a bit above the clef. Programme note: This piece was inspired by Kandinsky's oil painting "Swinging" of 1925. There is no attempt to recreate the jazz influence, rather a sweep of sound, chordal in nature with punctuating rhythms which the painting suggested. In the middle there is a section of sustained notes, almost a pause in the music, before a final section of working out the material using both the sustained and rhythmic motifs. The piece was premiered by the London Chamber Group at the COMA Summer Concert, July 17th 1999, St George in the East, London, and performed at BMIC, London, in December 1999. Availability:from the composer |
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