Life Cycles
for solo violin or clarinet
(1998)
duration: 3’
GRT • 048 / 049
CD available
Mercurial
Marianne
Rothschild, violin
Reed Music
audio sample
score
available from
Australian Music
Centre
note: this solo is also part of a larger collection
– Occasional
Pieces
program note
This small violin
solo was written at 24 hours notice for the funeral of a
friend. A first draft was discarded, not for musical
reasons but because I couldn't imagine it for the occasion.
But what can sound right for such an occasion? So I didn't
write about death, I wrote about life and its continuity,
before and after ourselves. Of our connection to a constant
stream of life outside of our own contribution towards it.
Musically speaking, this then may be heard as a kind of
theme and variations, using repetitions within repetitions
and looping intervallic patterns.