Orchestra
SKU:
HL.14003801
Composed
by Anders Nordentoft.
Music Sales America.
Score. Music Sales
#KP00916. Published by
Music Sales
(HL.14003801).
ISBN
9788759882498.
Danish.
'Beggars'
Palace' is the name of a
fictive railway station,
a metaphor that can evoke
many associations, for
example as a place from
which one journeys on,
where one is forced to
stay for a short or long
period, or a place where
one simply gets stuck and
must watch others journey
on. The fictive station
has something worn-out
and shabby about it, but
the worn and shabby can
have its own poetry and
beauty. At the end the
music stands still for a
minute or two, while a
voice talks about
Beggars' Palace.
'Beggars' Palace' was
composed in January 2000
for the Aarhus Symphony
Orchestra. Anders
Nordentoft.