composer
Nestor Taylor was born to a very prominent Greek family, in Melbourne, Australia. He studied piano, harmony and counterpoint at the Athens Conservatory with George Diamantis and composer, Menelaos Pallantios.
related works
Poison-Flower : for cello / Nestor Taylor
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Cello
Scoring:
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2e Suite voor orkest : 1932 / Willem van Otterloo
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
3333 4331 timp perc hp str
Thalía : for orchestra, (1987), revision 1988 / Maarten Bon
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
3333 4331 str
De mei plaisant : variaties voor orkest, april 56 / O. van Hemel
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
2222 4330 timp 2perc hp/pf str
composition
Pandemonium : Symphonic Fantasy for large orchestra / Nestor Taylor
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