Sheet Music: ScoreAfter Nina : for clarinet in A, cello and piano / Andrew Schultz.by Andrew Schultz (2007)
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After Nina was composed in the first half of 2007 for the Endeavour Trio (Paul Dean, Trish O'Brien and Stephen Emmerson). It is a nine minute work which was written at the same time as my chamber opera, The Children's Bach. The work is a slow and lyrical study based around a pattern of low chords heard first in the piano.
The title and the mood of the piece refer to the Nina Simone version of the song, Strange Fruit with its sparse piano accompaniment. Strange Fruit is the anit-lynching civil rights song written in the 1930s by Abel Meeropol and then made famous by Billie Holiday.
'Southern trees bear a strange fruit,
Blood on the leaves and blood at the root,
Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze,
Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees.'
I have often been asked why it is the Nina Simone version of the song that interested me rather than the more well-known version by Billie Holiday. It is the relatively detached style of Simone's version - the limited use of overt emotionalism when dealing with a topic that so easily invites it. Whilst Simone does give vent towards the end her style is mostly sparse and allows the text to stand.
Published by: Australian Music Centre — 1 facsimile score (10p. -- B4 (portrait))
Difficulty: Medium
Duration: 9 min.
Commissioned by Endeavour Trio.
First performance by Endeavour Trio at Endeavour Trio (Government House (Sydney)) on 7 Dec 2008
Typeset edition.
ISMN: M-67305-946-7
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What happens when you listen to music? What happens in your brain? What makes music sad, poignant or joyful? How easy is it as a composer to shape and extract emotional responses to particular compositions?
In this conversation you’ll hear music and some interesting insights into composition and emotional response with Emma Ayres; Professor Andrew Schultz – composer and head of the school of Arts and the Media at UNSW and Associate Professor Emery Schubert.
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