- Ib Nørholm
Sandskornets Topologi, Op. 102 (1987)
(Aspects of Sand and Simplicity)- Edition Wilhelm Hansen Copenhagen (World)
Programme Note
Aspects of Sand and Simplicity, op. 102
The motto of the work is a quotation from the novel Quinx by the English author Alexander Durrell:
“Subsiding from Zenith like an old sand castle,
The sea –lick washing me away balcony by balcony,
… and so back to dune soon
And then forever dune prime, and then sand, sand, sand
The endless and uncountable sand.”
As music – the most transient of arts – in our memory is being inevitably destroyed, as its time is past, in just the same way we are wiped out like all the old splendours made of sand or clay.
The work has three movements – fast, slow, fast – whose thematic and tonal rather simple, almost formularized elements naturally have a connection with the humility of the title, which is due to the fact that it is composed to the young amateurs in the Suzuki Chamber Orchestra, which at the time had an almost semi-professional standard.
Ib Nørholm
The motto of the work is a quotation from the novel Quinx by the English author Alexander Durrell:
“Subsiding from Zenith like an old sand castle,
The sea –lick washing me away balcony by balcony,
… and so back to dune soon
And then forever dune prime, and then sand, sand, sand
The endless and uncountable sand.”
As music – the most transient of arts – in our memory is being inevitably destroyed, as its time is past, in just the same way we are wiped out like all the old splendours made of sand or clay.
The work has three movements – fast, slow, fast – whose thematic and tonal rather simple, almost formularized elements naturally have a connection with the humility of the title, which is due to the fact that it is composed to the young amateurs in the Suzuki Chamber Orchestra, which at the time had an almost semi-professional standard.
Ib Nørholm