Name: 18/04/'21 A Reflection by Jeremy Hart Performance Ensemble Digital Sheet Music
Brand: Jeremy Graham Hart
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18/04/'21 A Reflection
by Jeremy Hart Performance Ensemble - Digital Sheet Music

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Title 18/04/'21 A Reflection

Artist Jeremy Hart

Score Type

PDF, Included with PASS

Composer Jeremy Hart

Format Digital Sheet Music

Pages 13

Arrangement Performance Ensemble

Publisher Jeremy Graham Hart

Level 4

Product ID 1198269

Genre 20th Century

Instruments B-flat Bass Clarinet Percussion Soprano

Product Description

18/04/21: A Reflection is written as a tentative expression of the tumultuous emotions experienced by the composer, upon watching so many landmarks of their home be threatened or destroyed by the fire which ravaged Table Mountain on the 18th and 19th of April 2021. The most impactful symbol of this tragedy is, for the composer, the heart-rending body of images showing the Jagger Reading Room ablaze. The score expresses the composers experiences in a collage, drawing from C. Debussys La Cathedral Engloutie and W. A. Mozarts Requiem in evocation of the emotions surrounding the burning library, and enacts them in a three-part narrative. The opening is articulated as a collection of sporadic outbursts heard against a slower melody and a rising bell motif. This is an evocation of the shifting uncertainty of the early hours of the fire shortly after it had consumed the Rhodes Memorial Restaurant. This slowly becomes the evocation of horror and dismay that characterises the second section, as the fire takes hold of Mosterts Mill, various parts of the University of Cape Town forcing students into a full evacuation of their residences, and eventually the Jagger Reading Room. The finality of the second sections ending is followed by the muted resignation and mourning of the third and final section. The slowed melody from the first section returns, without the frenetic outbursts. All the listener is left with is the certainty of what has happened. The melody tries to rise to triumph, as the fire is held back from any further destruction, but ultimately falls back down and limps its way to an unsatisfactory and inconclusive closing statement.

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