The Deep Blue Book

for horn, guitar and double-bass


Duration: 12 minutes
Composed: 2014
Score


The premiere of this piece, written for Ensemble Discord took place on the 24 April 2014 in St. Paul's Hall, Huddersfield, UK. It was then performed on the 17 April 2014 in the Miry Concert Hall in Gent, Belgium.

The latest performance is going to be by Ensemble ConTempora at the Golden Lyre festival in Skopje, Macedonia on the 20 October 2015.

The Deep Blue Book is based around the text of a Russian bylina about a magic book that will answer any question. An ancient wikipedia, in a word. The questions asked of the book in the song deal with the usual issues of city of cities, river of rivers, etc. But towards the end there is a fable-like dream of a white and a black rabbit and how they provide the answer to the terrible state of the world.

 

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Ensemble Discord caught in action


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