Fantasy Sonata (DSIML) (2007)
for violin, piano and optional video
Dedicated to Darragh Morgan and Mary Dullea
Commissioned by SAMRO Endowment for the National Arts
Publisher: Bardic Edition
Score and instrumental part: BDE in preparation
Available from Goodmusic Publishing
Duration: c. 14'30"
Première
First performance: Wednesday 8 November 2023; Vestry Hall, University of West London; Darragh Morgan violin, Mary Dullea piano.
Further performance: 9 November 2023; Royal Holloway College, University of London; Darragh Morgan violin, Mary Dullea piano
Programme note
After the initial performances of Do you prefer red or white? Darragh Morgan suggested a new work inspired by the peculiarly South African practice of driving slowly in the middle lane of the motorway and becoming a hazard in the process. The plan of the work was mapped from my daily route on the M1/N1 between Johannesburg and Pretoria, when I was teaching at the University of South Africa from 2007-2009. Key landmarks on the route informed changes of direction in the piece. Much of the piece is soft and dream-like, as if the players are sleepwalking - the violin often playing glacial harmonics, the piano liquid semiquaver passages in the high register - interrupted by disjunct 'Cecil Taylor-like moments'. Fantasy Sonata (DSIML) was commissioned by SAMRO Endowment for the National Arts for Darragh Morgan and Mary Dullea.
for violin, piano and optional video
Dedicated to Darragh Morgan and Mary Dullea
Commissioned by SAMRO Endowment for the National Arts
Publisher: Bardic Edition
Score and instrumental part: BDE in preparation
Available from Goodmusic Publishing
Duration: c. 14'30"
Première
First performance: Wednesday 8 November 2023; Vestry Hall, University of West London; Darragh Morgan violin, Mary Dullea piano.
Further performance: 9 November 2023; Royal Holloway College, University of London; Darragh Morgan violin, Mary Dullea piano
Programme note
After the initial performances of Do you prefer red or white? Darragh Morgan suggested a new work inspired by the peculiarly South African practice of driving slowly in the middle lane of the motorway and becoming a hazard in the process. The plan of the work was mapped from my daily route on the M1/N1 between Johannesburg and Pretoria, when I was teaching at the University of South Africa from 2007-2009. Key landmarks on the route informed changes of direction in the piece. Much of the piece is soft and dream-like, as if the players are sleepwalking - the violin often playing glacial harmonics, the piano liquid semiquaver passages in the high register - interrupted by disjunct 'Cecil Taylor-like moments'. Fantasy Sonata (DSIML) was commissioned by SAMRO Endowment for the National Arts for Darragh Morgan and Mary Dullea.
