A Birthday Toast Jo Kondo
- Duration
- 1 mins 30 secs
- Composed
- 2006
- Published
- 2006
- Categories
- Instrumentation
- 1 Unspecified Ensemble
Purchasing options
| On Track (Score) | ISMN 57020-908-8 | £19.95 | Buy now |
any number of melody instruments
Programme note
Part of On Track, UYMP's Education Volume for Key Stage 4.
I have been interested in writing a piece, or a melody, to be performed by multiple players in unison. Of course, a solo song can be interesting by itself. But, it seems to me that when the same melody is sung by many singers in unison the musical nature of the melody itself changes, and it becomes something very different. Birthday Toast is an instrumental song to celebrate a vivid, high-spirited life, or a musical birthday present. Fragments of the popular birthday tune are inwrought in the quasi-modal (almost atonal) background; it’s a musically inlaid work, so to speak.
Performances
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- 20 Oct 2017 | 7:30pm |
St Cyprians' Church
Glentworth Street
London NW1 6AX
|Gavin Morrison (Flutes), Catherine Pluygers (Oboes), Phil Edwards (Clarinets), Henryk Sienkiewicz (Horn), Ben Exell (Bassoon), Alan Tomlinson (Trombones), Robert Coleridge (Piano)
- 14 Mar 2013 | 1:00pm |
Frontiers+ Festival, Recital Hall, Birmingham Conservatoire
|Schubert Ensemble
- 24 Oct 2012 | 7:30pm |
London New Wind Festival, Regent Hall, Salvation Army, 275 Oxford Street, London
|Catherine Pluygers (oboes), Phil Edwards (clarinets), Henryk Sienkiewicz (horn), Alan Tomlinson (trombone), Robert Coleridge (piano)
- 16 Oct 2009 | 8:30pm |
London New Wind Festival, Lauderdale House, Highgate Hill, London
|London New Wind Festival Players including Catherine Pluygers (oboe), Philip Edwards (clarinet), Robert Coleridge (piano)
- 20 Oct 2017 | 7:30pm |
Included in
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On Track
13 specially commissioned pieces which aim to breathe new life into the GCSE/Key Stage 4 Music Ensemble Performance syllabus.
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