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Lann, Vanessa

Vanessa Lann was born on April 6, 1968 in New York. Education: Vanessa Lann has been a composer and pianist since the age of five. She studied composition with Ruth Schonthal ...

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Divining Apollo : for violoncello and ensemble / Vanessa Lann, 2008

Publisher: Amsterdam: Muziek Centrum Nederland, cop. 2008
Publisher's number: 11761
Genre: Orchestra
Subgenre: Cello and large ensemble
Scoring: fl eh cl cl-b fg h trp trb perc hp pf 2vl vla vc vc-solo
Remarks: Geschreven voor het Schoenberg Ensemble en Hans Woudenberg. - Opgedragen aan Hans Woudenberg. - T.g.v. de Tweede Amsterdamse Cello Biënnale. - Met financiële steun van het Fonds voor de Scheppende Toonkunst.
Duration: 21'00"
Number of players: 17
Year of composition: 2008
Status: fully digitized (real-time delivery)

Description:
Program note (English): As in many of the works of Vanessa Lann, Divining Apollo deals with Time and Memory and the manner in which we listen. Almost all of the cellist's material involves repeated, recognizable gestures based on the overtones of the open strings of the instrument. However, due to the more aggressive and prominent patterns of the other players, as well as certain visual cues and unconventional seat positioning in the first half of the piece, the cellist initially appears to be playing accompanimental background colours, rather than solo material. Only after hearing the whole piece does the listener realize that the cellist's music at the beginning is actually the same as his music at the end, and that he has been playing the simple, but powerful, main melody of the piece all along. In the same way that the Greek god Apollo could divine, or predict, the future, the cellist's quiet, yet persistent, opening music proves to be the key to understanding the larger meaning, and form, of the work as a whole. - VANESSA LANN

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