Edward McGuire - Catalogue
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Junk Shop Blues (2006)
Programme Note available
Edward McGuire
Commissioned by The Cheltenham Music Festival for performance by the Scottish Chamber Orchestra.
First performance:
SCO / Joseph Swensen, Cheltenham Festival, 08 Jul 2007
Recording BBC (off air recording) / location: sound archive - GREEN [enquire]
Score : unpublished / Location: ref library [enquire]
Part(s) / Location: hire library [enquire]
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Programme Note availableEdward McGuire
Commissioned by The Cheltenham Music Festival for performance by the Scottish Chamber Orchestra.
First performance:
SCO / Joseph Swensen, Cheltenham Festival, 08 Jul 2007
Work Details
Category: chamber orchestral
Duration: 4'
Instrumentation: 2222 2200 Tp Str
Duration: 4'
Instrumentation: 2222 2200 Tp Str
SMC Holdings
Recording BBC (off air recording) / location: sound archive - GREEN [enquire]
Score : unpublished / Location: ref library [enquire]
Part(s) / Location: hire library [enquire]Programme Note
For a suite based on paintings from the Fleming Collection : Junk Shop Blues is inspired by Joan Eardley's 'Rag and Bone Shop'.
I knew 'rag and bone shops' as 'junk shops' and became fascinated by them on visits (at first with my mother) in 1950's Glasgow. With a hint of jig rhythm, the Glasgow jazz revival of the time and brief references to three street songs, here is a symphonic study inspired by Joan Eardley's watercolour of the same period.
She moved to Glasgow at the start of the second world war - with her mother - to study at the Glasgow School of Art and her depictions of post-war urban life parallel my own efforts in such works as "A Glasgow Symphony".
For a suite based on paintings from the Fleming Collection : Junk Shop Blues is inspired by Joan Eardley's 'Rag and Bone Shop'.
I knew 'rag and bone shops' as 'junk shops' and became fascinated by them on visits (at first with my mother) in 1950's Glasgow. With a hint of jig rhythm, the Glasgow jazz revival of the time and brief references to three street songs, here is a symphonic study inspired by Joan Eardley's watercolour of the same period.
She moved to Glasgow at the start of the second world war - with her mother - to study at the Glasgow School of Art and her depictions of post-war urban life parallel my own efforts in such works as "A Glasgow Symphony".
Notes
Forming part of a suite with four other composers, "SCottish Miniatures".
Forming part of a suite with four other composers, "SCottish Miniatures".
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