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Stephen Yates - Canto for Soprano
Saxophone and Piano (2004) |
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Canto was originally
scored for Baroque Oboe and Harpsichord and received its premiere in
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this year by the duo
who had commissioned the work, the Oboist Geoffrey Burgess and the |
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distinguished
American Harpsichordist, Elaine Funaro. Designed as a true duo the
composer has |
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juxtaposed the
singing qualities of the wind instrument and the harmonic richness and
rhythmic |
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precision of the
keyboard instrument to form a work that in structure bears some
resemblance to a |
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typical Eighteenth
century operatic scena, that is the use of alternating recitative and
aria forms. |
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The challenge for
the two performers is make the composition "speak", or to put it another
way the |
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performers
must agree on a common (un-notated) text and give the impression of
speech/song, hence |
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the "Canto" of the
title. |
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Programme Notes by
Stephen Yates |
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Canto by
Stephen Yates was premiered
on the 4th of September 2004 at the Music Auditorium, |
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McKinnon Secondary College, McKinnon,
Melbourne and next performed on the 5th of September at |
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the Crows Nest Performing Arts
Centre, Crows Nest, Sydney in concerts of all Australian music titled |
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'The
Australian Saxophone' with Jason
Xanthoudakis on Soprano Saxophone and Clemens Leske on |
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Piano. |