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Read more about the article Conversation for Solo Trumpet

Conversation for Solo Trumpet

  • Post author:christianmorris
  • Post published:December 29, 2021
  • Post category:Solo Instrument
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This piece is essentially an elaboration of lip-slur exercises (where each exercise takes place on a different harmonic). It is also theatrical, visual and humorous. The performer is encouraged to…

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Read more about the article Chorale Prelude ‘Warum Sollt’

Chorale Prelude ‘Warum Sollt’

  • Post author:christianmorris
  • Post published:December 29, 2021
  • Post category:Keyboard
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In this prelude the chorale melody is not smoothly integrated, rather it is an impostor to the conversation between the right hand and pedals. Gradually, however, it begins to influence…

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Read more about the article Prelude on Hyfrydol

Prelude on Hyfrydol

  • Post author:christianmorris
  • Post published:December 29, 2021
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The choice of the joyful melody Hyfrydol by RH Prichard reflected my desire to create a celebratory, extrovert recessional type piece. It is also a reflection of my Welsh roots.…

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Read more about the article The Ruffian on the Stair

The Ruffian on the Stair

  • Post author:christianmorris
  • Post published:December 29, 2021
  • Post category:Opera
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Summary A love triangle, incest, a murder or two, suspicion, loss and loneliness. And a goldfish, of course. The Ruffian on the Stair was British playwright Joe Orton’s breakthrough work,…

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Read more about the article Maghreb

Maghreb

  • Post author:christianmorris
  • Post published:December 29, 2021
  • Post category:Other Instrumental
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In 2008 I was asked to write a work for 36 trumpets as a companion piece for Harrison Birtwistle’s Static Mobile. A trip to Marrakesh resulted in the piece Djemma el Fna. Before the…

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Hey Ho, Nobody Home

  • Post author:christianmorris
  • Post published:December 29, 2021
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A large scale-piece made of a simple idea: a three-part round which is both interspersed with and overlaid by various instrumental and choral groups. At the end all of the…

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Fantasia for Orchestra

  • Post author:christianmorris
  • Post published:December 29, 2021
  • Post category:Orchestral
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Written in 1991, this piece definitely falls into the category of 'juvenilia,' but it was, nevertheless, an important staging post for me. Writing at a time when I had not…

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Variations for Orchestra

  • Post author:christianmorris
  • Post published:December 29, 2021
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This work was inspired by Schoenberg's Op.31 Variations for Orchestra. Despite this, it shares almost no stylistic similarities with that piece, being more an amalgam of Mathias, Britten and Shostakovich…

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Read more about the article Variation XVI, fanfare for brass quintet

Variation XVI, fanfare for brass quintet

  • Post author:christianmorris
  • Post published:December 28, 2021
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Perhaps Britten’s greatest opera, The Turn of the Screw contains fifteen interludes that are variations on a single theme. This fanfare is both a sixteenth variation upon that theme and…

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Oppositions I

  • Post author:christianmorris
  • Post published:December 28, 2021
  • Post category:Chamber
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The first of my pieces exploring the abrupt juxtaposition of contrasting thematic material. The idea was borrowed from a friend who wrote a striking work with the same title, which…

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