Rushall Express
for solo guitar
(1997)
duration: 5’
GRT • 034
audio sample
score
available from
Australian Music
Centre
program note
Rushall train
station is just across the road from where I was living in
1997. When I first started ‘dashing off a quick piece’ for
Ken Murray (who was present with guitar in hand during the
entire writing process), we jokingly referred to it as a
rush job, and so the title stuck. But dozens of sessions
(and coffees) later, I began to wonder if the piece would
ever be finished. Every little motivic extension or
fingering alternative seemed like a set of Russian dolls -
each solution containing a few more slightly smaller
puzzles. In any event, the title did start to ring true in
the sense that the piece endeavors to maintain a
‘train–like’ propulsion throughout.