Score
In A Dream, Falling : for chamber orchestra / Alex Turley.
Library shelf no. 784.3/TUR 1 [Available for loan]
Work Overview
I wrote this piece at a time of great global anxiety and uncertainty, aiming to capture the kaleidoscope of emotions that I and those around me were experiencing. The piece is certainly influenced by my somewhat jumbled headspace whilst locked down for several months in my house in Melbourne. It is a work of contradictions and complications; moments of chaos interspersed with moments of stillness, density with sparseness, linear development with breaks of continuity. I drew inspiration from the way that time flows in dreams; fluidly stretching and condensing, floating from moment to moment, and lacking clear direction. This sense of time underpins the work and is the inspiration behind its opening image: you are in a dream, and you are falling.
Work Details
Year: 2020
Instrumentation: Flute (piccolo), oboe, 2 clarinets in B flat, bassoon (contrabassoon), 2 horns in F, 2 trumpets in C, trombone, tuba, timpani, 2 percussion, harp, piano, strings.
Duration: 10 min.
Difficulty: Advanced
Commission note: Commissioned by Melbourne Symphony Orchestra with funds provided by Cybec Foundation.
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