Sleepless in Overnight City
for soprano saxophone and CD
(1994)
duration: 10’
GRT • 021
CD available
Beat Me
Barry Cockcroft, soprano saxophone
Reed Music
audio sample
score
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program note
This piece is in
3 main sections. The first represents the pace of city life
and the activity spilling out onto its streets and
side–walks. The middle section is set well after midnight.
Walking though the city alone, one peers up at a skyscraper
and a lone office light is still turned on – a small square
of light on a large dark tower. The city is virtually
dormant but somebody is still up there working? Perhaps.
This section includes an improvisational solo which is
structured to lead back into the final section, dawn, which
depicts the city coming back to life again.
reviews
"Barry
Cockcroft's saxophone made an aggressive brace of outings,
first in Stuart Greenbaum's Sleepless in Overnight
City, where
catchy, boppy outer segments framed an impassioned
quasi-improvised middle..."
Clive O'Connell, The Age, May 1996
"Sleepless in Overnight
City is in a
popular style with catchy tunes, The varied styles within
the work as well as the interest created by the
improvisatory nature of the work make it especially
interesting for both the performer and the
audience."
James Nightingale, Australian Clarinet and
Saxophone, September 1998