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For Trumpet and Piano (2024), duration: 12’
I. The Furthest City Light
II. Luminary Clock
This two-movement work ‘Acquaintances’ attempts to bridge the distance between notated and improvisatory musical styles. Programmatically, the piece is a meditation inspired by Robert Frost’s Acquainted with the Night, resulting in music that is transitory and dream-like, the second movement in particular reflecting the constancy of a ‘Luminary Clock’. The First Movement is recitative-like, in a rough Arch Form, with an almost symmetrical structure and broad gestures from the Trumpet and Flugelhorn. The central piano theme of the Second Movement is static, beneath free, improvisatory gestures. Although improvisatory, the movement does incorporate more formal compositional features, such as the middle section’s displacement and metric alterations of the theme. This piece was first performed by Yael Marks and Max Kielly on the 14th of June 2024, at Ormond College.
For Trumpet and Piano (2024), duration: 12’
I. The Furthest City Light
II. Luminary Clock
This two-movement work ‘Acquaintances’ attempts to bridge the distance between notated and improvisatory musical styles. Programmatically, the piece is a meditation inspired by Robert Frost’s Acquainted with the Night, resulting in music that is transitory and dream-like, the second movement in particular reflecting the constancy of a ‘Luminary Clock’. The First Movement is recitative-like, in a rough Arch Form, with an almost symmetrical structure and broad gestures from the Trumpet and Flugelhorn. The central piano theme of the Second Movement is static, beneath free, improvisatory gestures. Although improvisatory, the movement does incorporate more formal compositional features, such as the middle section’s displacement and metric alterations of the theme. This piece was first performed by Yael Marks and Max Kielly on the 14th of June 2024, at Ormond College.