Work
Aquamarine
for piano
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About
The tension between the piano's percussive mechanism and the fluidity of water has borne fruit in countless works for piano: from Ravel's Ondine and Chopin's Raindrop Prelude, to Schubert's Am Meer. Not coincidentally, these works were among those played by my grandmother as silent film "scores" in the small New Zealand town of Takaka. In Aquamarine watery fragments from the musical past refract and reflect.
Commissioned note
Commissioned by Eve Egoyan was funded by the Canada Council for the Arts and the Toronto Arts Council
Dedication note
Dedicated to my Grandmother, Gladys Boyce
Contents note
Single movement
Performance history
05 May 2000: Performed by Eve Egoyan