Singing and Dancing
Calder Quartet
Composer:
Fabian SvenssonInstrumentation:
String quartetYear of composition:
2008Duration:
20'Commissioned by:
Carlsbad Music Festival and ArtPower! at UCSDProgram note:
Singing and Dancing is a 20 minute long piece split into two large parts, the first part concerned with singing, or song-like music, and the second part concerned with dancing, or dance-like music.
The first part is slow and austere, consisting of not much more than a very simple sequence of chords, out of which a little melody emerges after a while. The second part is lively and energetic. It is basically made up of a bouncy one-bar phrase, which is repeated over and over again, each time in a slightly different way. As the music unfolds, this repeated phrase is successively lengthened.
At the very end of the piece, elements from the first and second parts are briefly combined.
The first part is slow and austere, consisting of not much more than a very simple sequence of chords, out of which a little melody emerges after a while. The second part is lively and energetic. It is basically made up of a bouncy one-bar phrase, which is repeated over and over again, each time in a slightly different way. As the music unfolds, this repeated phrase is successively lengthened.
At the very end of the piece, elements from the first and second parts are briefly combined.
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Performed by Calder Quartet
Performances:
26th Sep 2008
Schulman Auditorium (Carlsbad, California, USA)
The Loft at UC San Diego (California, USA)
Zipper Hall (Los Angeles, USA)
Le Poisson Rouge (New York, USA)
Royal Danish Academy of Music (Copenhagen, Denmark)
Schulman Auditorium (Carlsbad, California, USA)
Calder Quartet
23rd Apr 2009The Loft at UC San Diego (California, USA)
Calder Quartet
23rd Sep 2009Zipper Hall (Los Angeles, USA)
Calder Quartet
20th Apr 2010Le Poisson Rouge (New York, USA)
Calder Quartet
24th Aug 2011Royal Danish Academy of Music (Copenhagen, Denmark)
Kairos Quartet
