Category: SOLOS - B♭. Cornet/Trumpet with Piano Composer: Liz Jane
Programme notes
Slate, Sea and Skyfeatures a musical landscape and journey in three integrated and continuous sections, led by the cornet soloist alongside ensembles broadly representing the title's elements: ‘slate’ (flugelhorn, tenor horns and trombones); ‘sea’ (baritones, euphoniums and basses) and ‘sky’ (comets). These alternate throughout with the full band, travelling towards
and through a storm, and emerging into bright skies at the end.
The title Slate, Sea and Sky is inspired by Norman Bissell's evocative poem of the same name, found in a book of poetry given to me by a close friend, to whom the work is dedicated.
Categories: SOLOS - B♭. Cornet/Trumpet with Piano, Michael Bennett Collection Composer: Michael Bennett
Composed on the tenth anniversary of the Piper Alpha tragedy for solo unaccompanied trumpet and dedicated to all those who died.
On Wednesday July 6th. 1988 at 10pm there was an explosion on board the Piper Alpha oil-rig in the North Sea. Two more massive explosions occurred eventually leaving one hundred and sixty seven men dead.
Ten years later while watching a documentary on the disaster I was struck by the survivor’s accounts of how despite the intense heat and noise, which emanated from the explosions, there was also a strange air of peacefulness. Being an Aberdonian and knowing many who work in and around the oil industry I decided to write a piece for solo trumpet which evoked this feeling of peacefulness.
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