2 posts tagged with "violin"

So… I've changed the title and programme note for the violin and piano piece being done in St Andrews next week.

It's now called '0utburst' instead of 'p01ntless'. Which is much better – why would someone want to play or listen to a piece of music that the composer thought was pointless!

Also changed the programme note to just two sentences, instead of the reams of nonsense I wrote before. It just says:

I wrote this piece on a day I was feeling really down.

I feel better now.

Baichuan and Inês have just run the piece through for me: their performance was perfect, they are superb musicians. Just for once, I'm genuinely 'really looking forward' to the performance of a new piece!

https://events.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/lunchtime-concert-by-ines-ferreira-soares-violin-and-baichuan-hui-piano/

I have a new work 'p01ntless' being performed at a lunchtime concert in St Andrews on Wednesday 30 September:

https://events.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/lunchtime-concert-by-ines-ferreira-soares-violin-and-baichuan-hui-piano/

The piece was 'commissioned' by two ex-students of mine, violinist Inês Soares and pianist Baichuan Hui. I say 'commissioned' – no money changed hands, rather they asked me to write it following a chance meeting in the RCS cafe bar.

I wrote a little bit about the piece in a previous blog post, and then kind of forgot about it: I only just found out that they are going to play it.

Coming back to the piece after a couple of weeks away feels… a little odd! I don't feel like I remember much about writing it, and I'm not sure right now that I understand my own work at all. I'm not sure that I now like either the title or the programme note. At the time, I was feeling down, hence 'p0intless' – if I was titling it today it might be something more like 'j0yful'.

Inês and Baichuan are going to run the piece through for me next week: we'll see. In particular, will the conscious decision to mark no dynamics in the piece prove a disaster?