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| Rei Munakata (1976 - ) | ||
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Night Brewing Windmill |
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| Instrumentation: | |||||
| Flute/Piccolo | |||||
| Bb Clarinet | |||||
| Trombone (with harmone mute and a musical pipe) | |||||
| 2 percussion players (2 musical pipes, a pair of claves, harmonica, 2 timpani, 4 dobaci, 2 suspended cymbals, a pair of maracas, waldteufel, flexatone, vibraphone with motor, cowbell, diskwashing brush) | |||||
| Grand piano (with an empty aluminum can and a lightbulb) | |||||
| Viola | |||||
| Cello (with a spoon) | |||||
| Contrabass (with a musical pipe) | |||||
| Durata: 14'30'' | |||||
| Program note: | |||||
Once upon a time, the Night changed its condition more often than now. While its degree of darkness colorfully changes in time, it also transforms its own phase by starting to evaporate, float away, and finally stabilize. All sorts of creatures and matters make the adventure of the Night exciting and disturbing. The Night has just begun… |
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| "... en känsla av frihet och okuvlighet. Det är mycket glädjande." | |||||
| - Magnus Haglund, Göteborgs-posten |
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| Performances: | |||||
| February 25th 2007, Konserthuset Göteborg, Sweden | |||||
| Ensemble Gageego! dir. Joakim Unander | |||||
| October 24th 2007, Konserthuset Göteborg, Sweden | |||||
| Ensemble Gageego! dir. Rei Munakata | |||||
| October 25th 2007, Konserthuset Göteborg, Sweden | |||||
| Ensemble Gageego! dir. Rei Munakata | |||||
| September 2008, Oslo, Norway | |||||
| Oslo Sinfonietta, dir. Peter Szilvay UNM Festival Oslo 2008 | |||||