related works
Lux Aeterna : for female voice, piano and string quartet / Nestor Taylor
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice solo
Scoring:
zang
Tritogno : variaties voor amateur/jeugd- symfonieorkest, 1982 / Jurriaan Andriessen
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
4221 2210 timp perc hp/pf 1-2hp str(vl vc (cb ad lib.))
Symphonie : (c minor), 1910 / ed. by John Smit, Julius Röntgen (1855-1932)
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
3223 4331 timp perc str
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
2222 2220 timp 2perc hp 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