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- Thea Musgrave
Night Windows for Oboe and 15 Strings (2016)
- Novello & Co Ltd (World)
Arranged by the composer from Night Windows for oboe and piano (2007)
Programme Note
Walking down a darkened street it’s hard to resist looking in through lighted windows and catching a glimpse of other people’s lives. The imagination lingers…
Night Windows is the title of a painting by Edward Hopper of a scene in one such lighted window. However the scenes in this work – though reflecting something of all the loneliness in so many of the Hopper paintings – are all imaginary: highly charged emotional moments.
Loneliness: Anger: Nostalgia: Despair: Frenzy.
The oboe and piano version of Night Windows was commissioned by the International Double Reed Society and it is dedicated to Nicholas Daniel.
Programme note © 2007 Thea Musgrave
Night Windows is the title of a painting by Edward Hopper of a scene in one such lighted window. However the scenes in this work – though reflecting something of all the loneliness in so many of the Hopper paintings – are all imaginary: highly charged emotional moments.
Loneliness: Anger: Nostalgia: Despair: Frenzy.
The oboe and piano version of Night Windows was commissioned by the International Double Reed Society and it is dedicated to Nicholas Daniel.
Programme note © 2007 Thea Musgrave
Media
Performed by Amy Turner oboe, and The Glasgow Barons conducted by Paul MacAlindin in 2020
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