Isn't it strange how you can't go very long before writing something with a touch of New Complexity… The woodwind parts are tonal and sostenuto but the piano part is a little NC, rhythmically anyway. I have no idea where this section goes. Maybe into the circular little filing cabinet… No animals were injured in the writing of this passage.
Interesting piece - it tests my highly flawed transposition ability to read it... I never understood the term New Complexity, I think it's used in Sydney where I seemed to miss out on it. What's the deal?
ReplyDeleteI had a thought - the instrumentation of your piece is somewhat similar to the Three-Penny Opera by Kurt Weill... totally different content, of course! But he deals with some of the same issues I think, being a top-heavy arrangement, and with some non-standard instruments