Sheet Music: ScoreFalling man, dancing man : concerto for organ and orchestra / Andrew Schultz.by Andrew Schultz (2005)
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Falling Man/Dancing Man is a
concerto-style work for solo pipe organ and orchestra composed
for first performance on the organ of the Melbourne Town Hall in
2005. The twenty minute work is in three separate but related
movements.
Falling Man/Dancing Man was initially
inspired by two photos with contrasting depictions of human
reactions to war. The first was the abject image of a Falling Man
taken from the ground below the World Trade Centre attacks in New
York in 2001. The image was later suppressed and remains a deeply
contradictory photo given the choices and pain implicit in the
subject's decision to jump. The second shows a Dancing Man who is
celebrating in a Sydney street at the end of World War Two. His
hat is in the air as he dances for joy at the end of war. The
more I looked into it the more I became aware that images and
artwork depicting falling and dancing bodies are almost universal
icons from rock art to the present. Perhaps this is because they
depict fundamental truths about human experience. Whilst echoes
of both these and other images have found their way into the
piece, the musical matters took their own course in the work and
in the end the organist's dancing feet and physical elevation in
the organ loft also seemed apt for the title.
Published by: Australian Music Centre — 1 facsimile score (76p. -- A3 (portrait))
Difficulty: Advanced
Duration: 20 mins
1. Infinity jinx -- 2. Deep crossing -- 3. The laughing man.
First performance by Oleg Caetani, Calvin Bowman — 18 Nov 05. Melbourne Town Hall
Includes programme note.
Typeset edition.
ISMN: M-67300-875-5
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Analysis & Media
- Program note: Andrew Schultz's "Falling man, dancing man"
by Andrew Schultz
Source: the score of this work
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