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Work Overview
This flute concerto burrows into the
processes of remembering. How can music 'remember' - other
people, other notes? The first movement is a decayed memory of
the opening of Allan Pettersson's Thirteenth Symphony, a work of
extreme instability and energetic violence seen from afar, after
time has perhaps erased much of its anger - what is left?
The central movement creates a representation of 'Damnatio
Memoriae' - a purging from society's collective memory, or a
rewriting of history. A series of variations progressively have
their musical 'identities' erased by a repeating gesture that
attempts to extinguish the soloist - here cast as an antagonist
to be purged from the landscape.
The final movement considers the Hapax - something that only
occurs once in a work. Would we recognise and remember if it we
heard it? Curlicues of bass flute melody infold themselves in a
hall of mirrors where all events are reflected and repeated
except one - the key to unlocking the piece.
Work Details
Year: 2021
Instrumentation: Solo flute (piccolo, flute, alto flute, bass flute), contrabass clarinet doubling clarinet in B flat, violin, cello, piano, percussion (xylophone, vibraphone, bass drum, tamtam, maracas, castanets, whip).
Duration: 15 min.
Difficulty: Advanced — Advanced flute technique, microtones
Contents note: I. Crippled hommage à A.P. ... a distanza -- II. Damnatio Memoriae -- III. Hapax.
Commission note: Commissioned by Ensemble Offspring.
First performance: by Ensemble Offspring at Ensemble Offspring: Shivers on Speed (Sydney Opera House, Utzon Room) on 28 Oct 2021
The composer notes the following styles, genres, influences, etc in relation to this work:
microtonal, flute solos
Subjects
- In the form/style of: Concertos
Performances of this work
Unknown date: Sydney Opera House Utzon Room. Featuring Lamorna Nightingale, Ensemble Offspring, Jack Symonds.
28 Oct 2021: at Ensemble Offspring: Shivers on Speed (Sydney Opera House, Utzon Room). Featuring Ensemble Offspring.
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