related works
Chaconne Triste (Autumn in my Heart) : for violin and piano / Nestor Taylor
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Violin and keyboard instrument
Scoring:
vn pf
Eerste suite : uit het ballet Job / Jan Pouwels
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
2222 3230 timp perc pf str
Sinfonietta : voor orkest, (1954) / Otto Ketting
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
2222 2210 timp perc str
Sinfonia : for chamber orchestra, 1985 / John Borstlap
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
2333 2000 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