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Rapid Clouds
A lyric Pastel for String Orchestra and improvizing soloists.
Why are there no concertos for improvizing musicians and
orchestra? I thought there was one, when I was working on
my violin concerto BULLseye. The piece is a reworking of Ole
Bull’s First violin concerto, written when he was 24 years old.
The score that I was presented with had no violin part. Did he
improvize it? Was he perhaps afraid that his violinistic ‘tricks’
would be stolen by others? Needless to say, a solo part finally
emerged in another copy.
But the question still fascinates me.
What if Gershwin had written an orchestral backdrop that an improvizing jazz-artist could play upon? Or Ravel? Or Stravinsky? It is sadly strange that they, and anyone else, didn’t.
In Norway, we are blessed with several serious-minded musicians who are well versed in the art of improvization. An improvization must always be elaborated on a pre-existing base. Without a base, we call it ‘intuitive’ music. Stockhausen’s Aus den Sieben Tage invite musicians to explore this territory.
But improvization is something different. There has to be a
base.
I decided to write one, an istrumental foundation upon which
sensitive musicians could embellish and comment.
I found such performers in the group POING.
Olav Anton Thommessen

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from Thommessen​/​Bibalo (FBRCD​-​12), released December 19, 2020
Olav Anton Thommessen, composer.
Telemark Chamber Orchestra
Lars-Erik ter Jung, conductor
POING
Rolf-Erik Nystrøm: alto saxophone / sopranino saxophone
Frode Haltli: accordion
Håkon Thelin: double bass

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