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Street Through A Window (2020)


Details
​Description:
 Solo harp

Duration: 12'

Movements: I (2') – Interlude (2') – II (3'30") – III (2'30") – IV (2')  (All movements are excerptible, except for the Interlude. The Interlude should only be performed between movements I and II.)

Instrumentation: Hrp. (7 strings tuned 50 cents flat, 8 strings muted with blu tack in Mvmnt II) 

​Commission: Developed through workshops as part of the LSO Panufnik Scheme. With thanks to Helen Sharp, Helen Tunstall and Anne Denholm for their guidance.

First performance: Movement II was performed by Bryn Lewis for the London Symphony Orchestra's Coffee Sessions, 21st June 2020.

Score link

Recording: ​First movement

Programme Note
Sketches of this piece emerged as part of the process of writing Muted The Night for the LSO. I wanted the harp to be the harmonic backbone of the orchestra, using detuned strings as an anchor for the strange tunings. The melody of the second movement was born out of those experiments. When quarantined during the COVID-19 Crisis, I retuned to these ideas. I wrote this at my partner's house, staring at the deadened street outside.
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Recording

All photographs by Ilme Vysniauskaite
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