Score
One thing at a time : for solo cello / Alice Humphries.
Library shelf no. 787.4/HUM 2 [Available for loan]
Work Overview
One Thing at a Time is a reflection on the small things - life's pieces, threads and building blocks. Written between 2020 and 2023, the suite embodies the shifts in perspective and priority that follow major life changes: the need to transmute life's complexity back to the simple and the sensory. Back to one thing at a time. The piece represents a shift in compositional focus towards clarity, and a more organic language.
Each movement has a textural, thematic and emotional focus named for a tactile object or action: Step, Brick, Breath, Grain and Threads. These are the foundations of being, movement, life, and the ties that connect us. They are where we begin.
Work Details
Year: 2024
Instrumentation: Cello.
Duration: 25 min.
Difficulty: Advanced — Suitable for professional and advanced tertiary and HSC/VCE students
Contents note: I. Step -- II. Brick -- III. Breath -- IV. Grain -- V. Threads (unravelling).
Commission note: Commissioned by Andrew Johnston in memory of his Grandmother Isabelle Lilian Dean (1904 – 1975) - a professional pianist playing the Cello as her second instrument. She played in the South Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
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