related works
Music Postcards: Night Echoes : for clarinet and piano / Nestor Taylor
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Clarinet and keyboard instrument
Scoring:
cl pf
Dansvariaties : voor orkest, (1956) / Henk Badings
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
3232 4331 timp perc pf str
News Item in the Year of Mozart : for orchestra / Vladimir Martynov
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
picc 3fl 3ob 3cl 2fg cfg 4h 3tpt 2trb trb-b/tb str
Entropie : voor orkest / Xander Hunfeld
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
2fl fl-a 3ob(eh) 3cl 3fg 4h 3tpt 3trb tb perc 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