related works
Two Winter Fairy Tales : for piano / Nestor Taylor
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Piano
Scoring:
pf
Vangoghiana : brassband, strijkers, slagwerk, 1977 / Hans Kox
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
0000 0004 9crt altoh 3perc str
From funeral to funfair (and back...) : for orchestra / Joey Roukens
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
fl fl(pic) 2ob 2cl 2fg 8h 3trp 3trb tb timp 2perc str
Ritmische studies : voor kamerorkest, opus 58 / Géza Frid
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
1212 1000 timp pf str
composition
Pandemonium : Symphonic Fantasy for large orchestra / Nestor Taylor
Other authors:
Taylor, Nestor
(Composer)
Description:
Pandemonium – Πανδαιμόνιο: wild and noisy disorder or confusion; uproar. This is the dictionary’s definition for this noun. More importantly perhaps, ‘pandemonium’ tells you it’s alright to be wild, to be crazy, to get out there and tear up the world. Have a course of action? Disrupt it. Randomly decide that purple and neon green are perfectly complimentary colors? Wear them!
A similarly open-ended esthetic approach was adopted when writing my Symphonic Fantasy for large orchestra under the same title. Pandemonium presents a fusion of conflicting styles, embracing different historical periods that curiously enough, are able to coexist in a new, more pluralistic time-order, with no boundaries. Formally, there is very little repetition allowing music ideas to be in a state of constant flux, proliferating and reorganizing themselves in unexpected ways. Pandemonium is dedicated with gratitude to Myron Michailidis and the Erfurt Philharmonic orchestra.
Nestor Taylor 18.02.2020