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Clarinet Quartet - “The Liberation of Mr Norris”
for four clarinets
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About
Michael Norris’ article, Notes from a compositional/pedagogical apprenticeship, (printed in CANZONA 2005) is used as starting point for this piece. It is intended to be an artistic response to the article, a tongue-in-cheek realisation of some of the conceptual aspects that Michael discusses.
Commissioned note
Contents note
I. A Journey into Monodic Variation
II. On an old theme; Ode to Ferneyhough
III. A Dilemma of Gesture
IV. WAPB; Dealing with the impossibility of developing “fully-fledged lyrical thematic material”
V. Epilogue; Insidiously Instill[ing] an Institutionally-Sanctioned Aesthetic
Performance history
17 Oct 2007: Performed by Rowan Meade, Anna McGregor, Natalie Harris, James Fry at the University of Auckland Music Theatre, Auckland