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- Gerard Schurmann
Romancing the Strings (2015)
- Novello & Co Ltd (World)
Commissioned by the Arizona Friends of Chamber Music and first performed at the Tuscon Winter Chamber Music Festival on 20 March 2016.
Programme Note
Structurally, Romancing the Strings consists of six short variations on a theme of my own, a romantic tune that I previously wrote as part of the score for a Walt Disney film based on a novel by Russell Thorndike (1915). The film was set in the south of England during the reign of George III around the year 1800. It was initially released as a theatrical feature in 1963 and subsequently became somewhat of a cult favourite, repeatedly broadcast in the form of three one-hour episodes on TV in the CBS Disney Hour as ‘Dr Syn – Alias the Scarecrow’.
The stately home represents a warmly romantic aspect of what is otherwise an exciting adventure story, involving brandy smuggling from France and starring Patrick McGoohan in double guise as the courageously daring Vicar of Dymchurch, as well as the leader of a rebel band of citizens trying to save the town of Romney March from the King’s oppression.
Romancing the Strings aims to convey feelings of ardent and wistfully nostalgic romance.
Programme note © 2015 Gerard Schurmann
The stately home represents a warmly romantic aspect of what is otherwise an exciting adventure story, involving brandy smuggling from France and starring Patrick McGoohan in double guise as the courageously daring Vicar of Dymchurch, as well as the leader of a rebel band of citizens trying to save the town of Romney March from the King’s oppression.
Romancing the Strings aims to convey feelings of ardent and wistfully nostalgic romance.
Programme note © 2015 Gerard Schurmann
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