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Grotesque

CD

Grotesque : and other chamber works / by Meta Overman.

  • Published by Wirripang — 2019 [Wirr 098] — 1 CD
  • Sales Availability: This item may be available to purchase from the Australian Music Centre.
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  • Library Availability: CD 3060 — Reference (not for loan) copy only

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This item may be available to purchase from the Australian Music Centre.
Please contact our Sales Department to confirm pricing and availability.

Featured Australian works

  Work Composer PerformersDuration
Berceuse (1945) — duos: 2 pianos
Recorded/performed at: Verbrugghen Hall, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, on Mar 19.
Meta Overman Jeanell Carrigan, Tonya Lemoh 4 mins, 35 sec.
Galgenlieder — high voice with piano
Recorded/performed at: Verbrugghen Hall, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, on Mar 19.
Meta Overman Narelle Yeo, Jeanell Carrigan 7 mins, 30 sec.
Grotesque (1951) an operina in one act
Recorded/performed at: Verbrugghen Hall, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, on Mar 19.
Meta Overman Narelle Yeo, Sue Newsome, Jeanell Carrigan, Tonya Lemoh, Goetz Richter 8 mins, 54 sec.
Island songs (1956) — high voice with piano
Recorded/performed at: Verbruggen Hall, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, on Mar 19.
Meta Overman Narelle Yeo, Tonya Lemoh 6 mins, 45 sec.
Pegasus' Dance (1953) — duos: 2 pianos
Recorded/performed at: Verbrugghen Hall, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, on Mar 19.
Meta Overman Jeanell Carrigan, Tonya Lemoh 2 mins, 45 sec.
Sonata for clarinet and piano (1956) for clarinet with piano
Recorded/performed at: Verbrugghen Hall, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, on Mar 19.
Meta Overman Sue Newsome, Jeanell Carrigan 10 mins, 46 sec.
Sonata for viola and piano (1955) for viola with piano
Recorded/performed at: Verbrugghen Hall, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, on Mar 19.
Meta Overman Charlotte Fetherston, Jeanell Carrigan 11 mins, 20 sec.
Two Pieces for Two Pianos (1946) — duos: 2 pianos
Recorded/performed at: Verbrugghen Hall, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, on Mar 19.
Meta Overman Jeanell Carrigan, Tonya Lemoh 5 mins, 13 sec.

Product details

The Music of Meta Overman is innovative, individual, sometimes humorous, expressing amazing creativity and powered by strong visual imagery. The desire to express imagery in sound was obvious from an early age when the young Meta would place picture books on the piano and attempt to play what she could see. Her musical language transforms images into musical concepts and sounds and this intention is evident in all her compositions.

Grotesque is a tragic comedy with quite an absurd plot involving an old man - the character played by the clarinettist, a young girl, sung by the soprano and a ghost whose antics are created by the sounds of the piano. Its structure is theme and variations as in the original version for piano four hands and the plot is described by a narrator. It is a little questionable whether in a performance that is staged the narrator is really necessary. In fact there is no mention of a narrator on the original score though when recording the work a narrator could be deemed necessary to outline the antics of the characters who cannot be seen. In a staged version the characters create the images and the "narration" on the score can be viewed as merely stage directions. The dancer would therefore act out the antics of the ghost and the instrumentalists would become the characters described by the stage directions.

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