Yesterday the musicians
Still Life with Guitar gave a lunchtime concert at the National Museum of
Wales, Cardiff. As usual with these players, it was a fascinating and unusual
event and included the premiere of a new piece of mine (see previous blog, Song for a Hidden Chapel, for
more details)
They played in front of an impressive
Stanley Spencer Resurrection painting and this, and the other paintings and sculptures dotted
around, made it a visual and musical treat.
They played a great new
piece by the young Cardiff-based composer Luke Starkey – one of the movements,
called Five Little Pigs, consists of five micro pieces, one of which is
only two notes long. Fabulous! Here's Michael McCartney and Emma Coulthard rehearsing.
As you can see the rehearsals were very serious,
but also fun …
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