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78 RPM DVD Blues

CR: 67
Year: 2010
Duration: 5'
Instrumentation: Piano
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78 RPM DVD Blues was written for the blues project of Marcel Worms. It magnifies some well-known blues trademarks by confronting and combining them with various ways of writing for piano that emerged during the 20th century. The piece immediately starts off by taking a very typical blues lick and transforming it into something far more stubborn than it probably might has ever been. Further points of interest are some sticky outlines of a slow blues, a boogie woogie crossed with Xenakis, and an innocent and lonesomely vanishing little blues in two scant lines.

show performances
  • 15 September 2010, 19.30, Residency of the French Embassy, Kampala, Uganda (Premiere)
    Marcel Worms (piano)
    'New Blues for Piano'
  • 18 September 2010, 15.00, National Theatre, Kampala, Uganda
    Marcel Worms (piano)
  • 21 November 2010, 20.15, Bethaniënklooster, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (Dutch Premiere)
    Marcel Worms (piano)
    'New Blues for Piano'
  • 8 July 2011, 20.30, Museum of the City of Skopje, Skopje, Republic of Macedonia (Macedonian Premiere)
    Marcel Worms (piano)
    Festival Skopsko Leto (Skopje Summer)
  • 14 October 2013, 20.00, Nutshuis, The Hague, The Netherlands
    Christiaan Richter (piano)
  • 25 January 2014, 16.00, RASA, Pauwstraat 13a, Utrecht, The Netherlands
    Christiaan Richter (piano)
    Gaudeamus Jonge Componistenbal
  • 8 February 2014, 14.00, Arnold Schönbergzaal, Royal Conservatoire, The Hague, The Netherlands
    Christiaan Richter (piano)
    Open Day Royal Conservatoire of The Hague

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