related works
Lux Aeterna : for female voice, piano and string quartet / Nestor Taylor
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice solo
Scoring:
zang
Hommage aan Dmitri Sjostakowitsj : opus 4, voor orkest, 1978, revisie 1990 / Ed de Boer
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
3220 3331 2perc hp pf str
Pontius : for small orchestra, 1990 / Maurice Horsthuis
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
0021 2210 str(vl vc cb)
Praeludium en Fuga : voor orkest / Herman Strategier
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
2332 4330 3perc 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