The CoMA Bolton and Salford ensemble, conductor Stuart Hazleton, are performing two pieces by Paul Burnell as part of the Music for Youth National Festival at the CBSO Centre, Birmingham, UK on 6 July 2017 at 17:15. The fifty-strong youth ensemble (ages 13-19) will be playing:
Paul Burnell - 4 Minutes, 4 Daydreams
Stephen Montague - Dead Cat Bounce
Howard Skempton - Sirens
Paul Burnell - Subside
The annual Music for Youth National Festival takes place in July and feature around 8,000 of the UK's brightest young musicians at venues and city-centre locations across Birmingham.
'Subside' was written in February 2004 in response to a call for pieces on the theme of 'The Four Temperaments'. This was part of CoMA’s Open Score project, made possible with funds from the Esmée Fairbairn and PRS Foundations. The piece outlines a slow mood change from controlled violent anger to tenderness, then a sudden flip back to anger again.
'Four Minutes - Four Daydreams' was composed in 2000. It has four distinct sections, each 1 minute long. Like an extended daydream each section is progressively more developed. The piece was included on the 2013 album 'Cabbage Heads' and on the 2016 album 'Open Score' by the London Sinfonietta.
Both 'Subside' and 'Four Minutes - Four Daydreams' are presented as one-page scores and are available from the CoMA Library, Sheet Music Plus and MusicaNeo.