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| Title | Can that Crash Banged On, The |
| Contributors |
Derek Ball (composer) |
| Composition date | 2008 |
| Duration (mins) | 4 |
| Category | accompanied vocal |
| Instrumentation | M-S / Picc Ob B-Cl Vn Cb |
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| First performed | |
| Notes | For the Crash Ensemble, Dublin |
| Programme Note | The idea for this piece came from a short chamber opera I completed a few months previously (called Vaulted Gothic), for which I was my own librettist. Starting with a short passage that appealed to me, I took both music and words off in a different direction. Already, in the opera, things were a little strange : the words might verge on the surreal but they still retain some vestige of comprehensibility, "handsome hero" for example referring ironically to one of the characters. But here, they are bound by no such constraints. Don't look too hard for a rational explanation : you won't find one!... |
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