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Item Details
Composer
Name of Work
Name of Work
Call No.
Year Created
Year Created
Type
Duration
Media
Notes
Biography
Language:
English - Main language
Degree of Difficulty:
Advanced
Physical Description:
1 score (8 p.); 28 cm.
Instrumentation:
Violoncello - 1
Notes:
For solo cello
Content Notes:
1. emerging
2. playful
3. hushed
2. playful
3. hushed
Premiere Information:
04/06/1999, Scotia Festival of Music, Halifax; Andrea Yun
"Bloom" is, in an abstract way, about the process of creation and transformation. This 'blooming' process, however, is not a gentle, delicate metamorphosis but a struggle which is at times fiery and harsh. The first movement, "emerging", reflects this idea with a large wedge-shaped structure of unrelenting tension. A slow quiet opening passage builds to a high point of intensity, only to push on with no release until the end of the movement. "playful" has a lighter feel, yet even this scherzo has moments that echo the aggressiveness of the previous movement. In "hushed" there is, at last, peace and a quiet stasis through repetitions of a simple motive that appears with only slight variations.
