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David Farquhar  

Au clair de la Lune

Duration: 01' 00" Year: 1965
for violin and piano

David Farquhar  

Echoes

Duration: 01' 00" Year: 1965
for solo violin

Claire Scholes  

Knees Up Mambo

Duration: 12' 00" Year: 2008
for violin solo and string ensemble

Claire Scholes  

Knees up Mambo

Duration: 12' 00" Year: 2008
for solo cello and string ensemble

David Farquhar  

March and Musette

Duration: 01' 00" Year: 1966
for violin and piano

David Farquhar  

O Come All Ye Faithful

Duration: 01' 00" Year: 1966
arranged for violin and piano

Anthony Young  

The Glass Menagerie

 Year: 2006
for solo violin

  • Programme Note

    Near the start of play, a reference is made to the strings that the audience can hear, and Tennessee Williams is quite specific in where he wants music to be placed. The director of the production, Jesse Peach, and I decided that a solo violin would be the appropriate medium for the music for his Glass Menagerie.

    The music is dominated by one particular theme, which is found in the Prelude. This theme symbolises the unfulfilled or unfulfillable dreams of the cast, and the resignation and quiet desperation that goes hand in hand with these. Other music is present: a theme to represent Amanda, the mother, whose recollections of a more “gentile” time motivate many of her decisions; music from the dance hall and a waltz off the gramophone; and these themes are frequently interwoven.

    For practical purposes, numbers are often written longer than needed (eg. the waltz) as their endings need to coincide with stage action, sometimes abruptly. The forms are generally very simple, and I have felt that simple forms and material were best in combination with the drama.

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