Full Score
SKU:
HL.367910
For
Violin and Orchestra Full
Score. Composed by
Michael Ellison. E.B.
Marks. Softcover. 58
pages. Edward B. Marks
Music #MP075013.
Published by Edward B.
Marks Music (HL.367910).
ISBN 9781705140451.
UPC: 840126966787.
11.0x17.0x0.456
inches.
Premiere
Slovak Radio Orchestra,
June 30, 1992,
Bratislava, Slovakia,
Robert Black, conductor;
Lydia Forbes, violin.
Henry V is an overture,
but with a violin
protagonist. This is a
concerto, but the density
of interaction between
soloist and orchestra is
far more intense than in
any previous work,
whether classical or
modern. Its form is
somewhat analogous to
sonata, but it middle
sectionbreaks away
completely from what has
come before into an
exhilarating 5-8
ostinato. There is a joy
in dissonance here, an
embracing of pain, and
all the sorrow of
existence, as part a
Gita-like vision of the
horrible, terrifying
beauty of men throwing
themselves into the
slaughter, straining
their utmost in a joyous
‘dance’of mud and
death. As such, the
energy of the piece is
compact, and onfirst
listen, potentially
overwhelming. Metaphors
of the individual coming
out of a society, being
influenced by and then
interacting with that
society, and then finally
leading it are strongly
evoked by this work in a
non-specific, archetypal
way. Winner of Marin
Symphony (CA) Composers
Symposium Competition
(1993).
