Chamber Music Guitar
SKU: PR.114410840
A Sleepless Nocturne
for Guitar. Composed
by Michael Karmon. Solo
part. With Standard
notation. Composed 1998.
Duration 15 minutes.
Theodore Presser Company
#114-41084. Published by
Theodore Presser Company
(PR.114410840).
UPC:
680160015689.
See
the biography of Michael
Karmon on the back
cover.
WHEN THE SHEEP
WON'T COME:Â A
SLEEPLESS NOCTURNE FOR
GUITAR was composed for
Joseph Hagedorn, winner
of the 1990 GFA solo
competition, and
premiered by him in
November 1999. My
original idea was to
write a serene and moody
nocturne in several
movements. However,
as I began researching
and listening to new
guitar pieces, I came
across Toru Takemitsu's
All in Twilight, and it
immediately made a
profound impression.Â
At the time I found it
beautiful, moving, and
inspiring, but I also
felt I didn't have
anything to add to what
Takemitsu already did,
and that I needed to find
a new concept for my
piece. So, I decided
to view night as a
potentially restless
time, rather than a
serene time, and portray
states of mind one might
go through during a
sleepless night. The
names of the movements
evoke, at least in my
mind, the moods I am to
depict, and the piece
becomes progressively
more convoluted as it
goes on. By the end,
the music is a surreal
and weary shadow of the
opening.
November Nocturne
