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James Gardner

Duration: 02' 00" Year: 1997, r. 2001
for solo bassoon

Programme Note

This short piece was originally written as a twenty-1st birthday present for clarinettist Esther Smaill. The melodic fragment heard at the outset soon skitters over its own unstable surface, mutates into fanfare-like repetitions, is spliced with momentary cantabile inserts, is interrupted by slow motion signposts, and blows itself out in a final burst of energy.
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Duration: 03' 00" Year: 2005
for bassoon, piano and triangle

Instrumentation
The pianist's triangle can be on a stand or stool beside the piano
Programme Note

Three minute-long pieces (the number three is important in other ways also) chronicling our heroic egg’s plunge into hot water (jostling for space in the pot); self-awareness (despair at not growing to be a fully-fledged chicken) and ultimate sacrifice at the dinner-table.

Written during a month-long residency in November 2005 at the Visby International Centre for Composers, Gotland, Sweden, and dedicated to this institute and its director Ramon Anthin. First performed by the Continuum Ensemble, Toronto, with narrator James Rolfe in Toronto in October 2006.
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- Carey: Music to Boil an Egg By; facsimile
  
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