Work
Musical Box
for taonga puoro, viola, guitar and harp
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About
Just in the way music boxes are used to store keepsakes and ignite faded memories, the instrumentalists in this piece are called on to respond to the primary instrumentalist by playing a transformed and faded version of the initial musical occurrence. Much in the same way memories are often comprised of reality and ongoing transfiguration's; the instrumentalists material becomes more disparate and takes on more of a life of its own.
This work was commissioned by the New Zealand School of Music with funding assistance from Creative New Zealand.
Commissioned note
Commissioned by the New Zealand School of Music with funding assistance from Creative New Zealand
Contents note
single movement
Performance history
26 Feb 2011: Interiors 1
First performed in Beijing as part of World Music Days in Beijing, in 2009