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Work Overview
I remember the long, dry summers and balmy, moist, winters of
Glenside, our South Australian home for five years. I remember my
two little sons in their blue school uniforms, whacking a
cricket ball against the vine-clad, red, brick of our house. The
juxtaposition of the musical elements in this work reflects the
peace and pleasure we knew from the sun, the vineyards, and
the sea, yet, too, our undeniable isolation and loneliness as we
sought to find our way home.
There are three principal types of music in Glenside:
1. Players each emit, in a sort of staggered unison, a brief
series of "cries"; this occurs three times in the work, at the
beginning, middle, and end;
2. Strings play simple, hymn-like music in block chords. This
music is based on a fragment of music which I heard one day on an
Australian children's t.v. program while we were eating
breakfast; and
3. Winds and strings create more dissonant and complex textures
of intermingling melodies above an ostinato of rising tones in
the piano.
Work Details
Year: 1999
Instrumentation: Flute, oboe, clarinet in B flat, bassoon, horn in F, trumpet in B flat, trombone, percussion (1 player), piano, strings (minimum 4.4.3.2.1).
Duration: 10 min.
Difficulty: Advanced — Advanced community orchestra/professional.
Commission note: Commissioned by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
First performance: by Saskatchewan Chamber Orchestra, Earl Stafford — 25 Apr 99. Saskatoon Festival of New Music, Broadway Theatre, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
Subjects
- Inspired by: South Australia
Performances of this work
25 Apr 99: Saskatoon Festival of New Music, Broadway Theatre, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. Featuring Saskatchewan Chamber Orchestra, Earl Stafford.
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