Audio Sample
|
|
Performance by Yesaroun’ Duo from the CD Selected Works by AMC Represented Artists, vol. 95. |
Selected products featuring this work — Display all products (2 more)
$POA
This item may be available to purchase from the Australian Music Centre.
Please contact our Sales Department to confirm pricing and availability.
$POA
This item may be available to purchase from the Australian Music Centre.
Please contact our Sales Department to confirm pricing and availability.
Score
Snapdragon : baritone saxophone and percussion / Miriama Young.
Library shelf no. 785.5612/YOU 1 [Available for loan]
Display all products featuring this work (2 more) 
Work Overview
Snapdragon was written for and premiered by the Yesaroun' Duo, with their fearsome exuberance and technical virtuosity in mind. The piece was composed during a time of media frenzy over America's initial attack on Iraq. Snow was falling in Princeton, physically trapping me in a tall apartment, while my connection with the outside world at the time - the TV - projected sensational stories and graphic images of far away places in turmoil. Gradually, I had this sense of becoming numb, as weather and war preyed on a creeping awareness of my incapacity to act in any tangible way. So, the music that emerged has a certain physicality, borne of frustration and a sense of disenfranchisement: it is music rooted in the body, and composed for the body -dance-like, of heartbeat, breath, and sigh - a way to "voice" when I couldn't speak
Work Details
Year: 2003
Instrumentation: Baritone saxophone, percussion.Percussion required: Vibraphone, Kick Drum, 5 Tom-toms (low, low-mid, mid, mid-high, high), Hi-hat, 3 Brake Drums, Unusual Resonant Metal (e.g. large Chinese Hand Cymbal) Medium Tam-tam (20”), Small Tam-tam, Chinese Opera Gong, 2 Suspended Cymbals (+wire brush), 1 bow.
Duration: 9 min.
Difficulty: Advanced
Dedication note: Dedicated to Yesaroun’ Duo
Written for: Yesaroun’ Duo
First performance: by Yesaroun’ Duo — 1 Mar 03. Taplin Auditorium, Princeton University, NJ, USA
The composer notes the following styles, genres, influences, etc associated with this work:
Rhythmic, driving, energetic, pulsing, jazz-influenced harmonies, drum kit + tuned percussion, baritone saxophone virtuosity. Closest influences: Louis Andriessen, Jack Body, Bach, Steve Reich, jazz.
Performances of this work
4 Mar 17: Lawrence University, Appleton, Wisconsin, USA . Featuring Shasta Tresan.
8 Nov 13: Zeitgeist New Music Caberet, Studio Z, Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA. Featuring Renegade Ensemble.
26 Oct 13: Studio Z, St Paul, Minnesota, USA. Featuring Jeffrey Kyle Hutchins.
20 Oct 13: Poppies in October, Slam Academy, Minneapolis, USA. Featuring Jeffrey Kyle Hutchins.
5 May 10: Recital Hall East, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, Sydney. Featuring Michael Duke, MATCH Percussion.
Oct 08: Tempo Dance Festival, Q Theatre, Auckland, NZ
1 Oct 08: HAAS Fine Arts Center, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, Wisconsin, USA. Featuring Jim Geddes.
1 Jun 07: ArtEZ University of the Arts, Zwolle, Netherlands . Featuring Michael Jamieson.
1 Jul 03: Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, Massachusetts, USA
1 Mar 03: Taplin Auditorium, Princeton University, NJ, USA. Featuring Yesaroun’ Duo.
User reviews
Be the first to share your thoughts, opinions and insights about this work.
To post a comment please login.