Jay Schwartz
*26.06.1965

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Jay Schwartz
Music for Orchestra III | for string orchestra

Work Details
Year of composition: 2010
Subtitle: for string orchestra
Scored for: for string orchestra
Composer: Jay Schwartz
Instrumentation details: violin I; violin II; viola; violoncello; contrabass
Commissioned by: Auftrag des Hessischen Rundfunks Frankfurt
Duration (min): 20
Dedication: for Christian

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World Première
Location: hr Sendesaal Frankfurt am Main / Germany
Date: 23.04.2010
Orchestra: hr-Sinfonieorchester
Conductor: Lucas Vis
Work Introduction

The music of Jay Schwartz is composed and develops, put together and unfolded, following a fixed arrangement of time. He allows that nothing at all is left to chance. There are, in principle, no surprises. A point of departure is determined and the work is then led solely by the nature of the [...]

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The work began more as a feeling than as a sound or a sight, as if it were made up less of specific notes as from the results of their interaction, the overtone song of their combination. You didn’t ‘hear’ it so much with your ears as with the area between the solar plexus, stomach and [...]


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