Last night the Turning Point Ensemble performed a great concert at Ryerson United Church in Vancouver featuring the World Premiere of a new work by Vancouver composer Jacquie Leggatt and a program of great Canadian music. A great concert: polished and exciting performances.
But today's post is my 2010 Olympic commission update. I delivered the parts to the ensemble of the music I have written so far for the chamber concerto commission. I have completed two of the five movements:
1. Curling
2. Short-track speed skating
The other three movements are still in sketch form.
It has been fascinating to write music that is somewhere in a nether-world between evoking the spirit of the games, and sonifying the actual rhythms of the winter sports. The musicians are athletes! They are competing, and then at other times they are working as a team. There are so many similarities between music and sports that I find myself scratching my head when people try to say that arts and culture are somehow a world apart from sports. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Look at their movement! It's all a dance, whether the dancers be actual dancers, or musicians dancing through their movements, or hockey players twirling on the ice. All are negotiating ups and downs, fast and slow…
Yet to come: movements 3, 4, & 5:
3. Skeleton
4. Freestyle skiing
5. Hockey
Stay tuned!
Monday, October 5, 2009
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