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Salle Oscar-Peterson, Montréal
12 mai 2019
West Island Youth Symphony Orchestra, Jean-Pascal Hamelin (chef)
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This composition is inspired by it’s recipient. In writing for a youth orchestra, I wanted to translate the youth (or small) aspect into various characteristics of the work such as instrumentation, difficulty of execution, musical complexity and duration. This work is a micro-symphony of 10 minutes in three short movements. The first movement is a sort of traditional sonata form with an exposition of two themes, development and recapitulation. The second movement, for strings only, is more lyrical and in a continuous form. The last allegro movement is of folkloric character and in a rondo form that uses material from the first movement as it’s second theme. The musical material is generated through the use of a 10-note mode. The mode is used in it’s entity in the first movement and in generally abridged forms for the other two movements. The leading note is always absent and I often use very consonant harmony without it’s tonal functions.
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