related works
Jigsaw : Fantasia Concertante for piano and orchestra / Nestor Taylor
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
pf-solo 2fl(picc) 2ob 2cl 2fg 4h 2tpt 3trb tb timp 4perc 2hp str
Time suspended : for orchestra, 1984 / Jurriaan Andriessen
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
3333 4331 timp 4-5perc hp pf str
Symphonische Musik : für orchester / Jan Koetsier
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
3333 4331 timp perc str
2e symphonie Cis gr.t. : voor groot orkest / Henk Bijvanck
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
3333 4331 timp 4perc 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