Short tone poem for solo piano. Composed for call: Vox Novus
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Story behind the song
Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame is a Vox Novus project
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Vox Novus is seeking musicians and ensembles
to take part of its Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame project
Fifteen Minutes of Fame is 15 one-minute works by different composers
written for a specific instrumentation.
Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame calls for composers to write one minute of their best music written specifically for a musician or ensemble. Vox Novus collects and collates the scores, biographies, and program notes and makes them available for the musician/ensemble to review. The musician/ensemble selects 15 of their favorite pieces with the idea of presenting the works in 15 exciting and varied minutes of new music.
Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame -- Re-Imagining Debussy for Stephen Porter
http://www.voxnovus.com/15_Minutes_of_Fame/program/15-Minutes-of-Fame_Stephen_Porter.pdf
THE CALL :
Vox Novus is calling for one-minute piano pieces composed for Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame to be performed Friday, March 1, 2013 for the Composer's Voice concert series at Lehman Hall at Harvard University. The one-minute pieces are to be written specifically for this project, which will be performed by Stephen Porter. The theme of this call is “Re-Imagining Debussy.” The work should interact in some way with the music or compositional spirit of Debussy, particularly his incorporation of foreign styles (Gamelan, Japanese, Spanish, etc) into his French sensibility. It can include quotation or pastiche, but this is not a necessity - the connection can be as direct or indirect as the composer desires.
MY PIECE :
"Le banc de poissons" (The School of Fish) Short work, in the style of Debussy études. Music depicts a school of small fish, quickly darting, to and fro, illustrated with short, fast runs. Some harmonic content reflects Debussy's interest in early American Jazz.
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Image: Claude Debussy at the piano (1862-1918)