related works
Huis – Clos : for piano / Nestor Taylor
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Piano
Scoring:
pf
Encore / Toegift : for orchestra / Chiel Meijering
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
2fl 2ob 2cl 2fg 2fh tpt trb tb perc org hrpsc pf e.g e.g-b str
Passo del diavolo : per orchestra, 1988, rev. 1990 / Will Eisma
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
2222 2210 timp 3perc cel hp str
Prologo sinfonico per un spettacolo magico : per orchestra / Willem Strietman
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
pic 2fl 2ob eh 2cl cl-b 2fg cfg 4h 3trp 3trb tb 5perc pf/cel 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