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| Title | Prelude for Strings |
| Contributors |
John Maxwell Geddes (composer) |
| Composition date | 2013 |
| Duration (mins) | 0 |
| Category | quintet string |
| Instrumentation | 2 Vn Va Vc Db |
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| Programme Note | In 1996 I wrote POSTLUDE FOR STRINGS in which the players leave the platform one by one, until no one is left. The work was written as a protest against cuts in music education, principally the closure of Castle Toward, the home of many youth orchestras, and the introduction of charges for instrumental tuition. In 2013 I write PRELUDE FOR STRINGS as a new beginning, where as a follow-up to their departure, the players return one by one, until the orchestra is reassembled, vigourous, defiant, and a new chapter begins... Both pieces may be performed chronologically, consecutively as: POSTLUDE & PRELUDE for Strings. -John Maxwell Geddes |
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