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Performance by Nat Bartsch, Kyla Matsuura-Miller, Madeleine Jevons, William Clark, James Morley from the CD Hope |
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Digital Audio Album
Hope (for orchestra) / Nat Bartsch.
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Score [ePDF]
Hope : for orchestra [eScore] / Nat Bartsch.
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Work Overview
Hope, in full, is an album I released through ABC Classic in 2021: a suite for piano, string quartet and electronics. This title track is the final piece, also arranged for symphony orchestra.
Hope in this context is an abbreviation of both hopeful and hopeless; and the music explores the space between. The album was written in 2020 in Melbourne- it began with the Black Summer bushfires, the smell of smoke in my house; and was completed in the long second covid-19 lockdown. It's a suite that addresses many challenging themes: climate change, relationships, disability, society, politics, covid-19.
The purpose of this final piece is create a cathartic space for us to hold all of these challenges, together. To acknowledge everything we've been through in the past two years; grieve everything we've lost. And whilst mindfully sitting with our grief, disappointment and frustration; also turning towards the future with a sense of quiet, hopeful, optimism. There are brighter days ahead.
Work Details
Year: 2022
Instrumentation: Flute/piccolo, oboe, clarinet in B flat, bassoon, 2 horns in F, 2 trumpets in C, 2 trombones, tuba, percussion (crash cymbal, sizzle cymbal, snare), harp, timpani, strings.
Duration: 5 min.
Dedication note: Many thanks to Stonnington Symphony Orchestra, Joseph Lallo and Alex Morris for the opportunity to re-paint this music in vivid orchestral colour.
Commission note: based on a commissioned arrangement for Stonnington Symphony Orchestra.
Performances of this work
8 Oct 2023: at Australian Doctors Orchestra (Ivanhoe Girls' Grammar School - Performing Arts Centre). Featuring Australian Doctors' Orchestra.
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