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Aquarium & Puppets

for full orchestra

Year:  2008   ·  Duration:  5m 17s
Instrumentation:  3*3*3*3*; 4231; timp., 3 perc.; strings | (Perc: crash cymbals, snare drum, glockenspiel, bass drum, marimba)

Year:  2008
Duration:  5m 17s
Instrumentation  3*3*3*3*; 4231; timp., 3 pe...

Robin Toan
Composer

Composer:   Robin Toan

Films, Audio & Samples

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About

Two movements adapted from chamber work, Barcelona Postcards.

The first movement illustrates the plethora of fish to be seen at the aquarium at feeding time. There are small fish, big fish, colourful fish and plain fish. I have tried to mimic the darting movements of the small fish with quick high grace notes and tremolos. In contrast, the darker notes of the oboe and the piano represent the bigger, slower and brooding fish.

Finding large as life puppets in the square outside the Cathedral was a delight. I imagined them to be alive, moving jerkily, interacting and dancing a little in an empty space.


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