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- Julian Marshall
A Thing of Beauty (2015)
- Novello & Co Ltd (World)
Programme Note
In the summer of 2015 my daughter Gabriel got married. A few months before the big day, she and her husband, Wesley, asked me to write them a piece. I was, of course, most delighted and honoured to accept and also to work with their suggested text, the poem A Thing of Beauty is a Joy Forever, by John Keats.
The overall style and approach is, I think, fairly clear from a brief examination of the score, but one word of advice is to not over do the ‘expressive romanticism’ inherent in the writing style. A ‘less is more’ approach is recommended. On the whole, let the dynamics do the expressive work without adding too much to it.
Julian Marshall, 2016
The overall style and approach is, I think, fairly clear from a brief examination of the score, but one word of advice is to not over do the ‘expressive romanticism’ inherent in the writing style. A ‘less is more’ approach is recommended. On the whole, let the dynamics do the expressive work without adding too much to it.
Julian Marshall, 2016