When the World Disintegrates Before Your Eyes (violin)
$5.00
When the World Disintegrates Before Your Eyes is a taut deconstructed scherzo. It’s muscular and propulsive, haunted by shards of the Scherzo from Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. The piece’s dark intensity and jarring fragmentation reflect a dear friend’s recent harrowing period of intense emotional turmoil and disintegration. When The World Disintegrates Before Your Eyes was commissioned by Irving M. Klein International String Competition
Description
When the World Disintegrates Before Your Eyes is a taut deconstructed scherzo. It’s muscular and propulsive, haunted by shards of the Scherzo from Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. The piece’s dark intensity and jarring fragmentation reflect a dear friend’s recent harrowing period of intense emotional turmoil and disintegration. The difficulty of the work lays not so much technical challenges, but in articulating and maintaining the work’s dramatic arc and pulse, all while navigating the sudden interruptions and shifts between ideas and sections. The piece runs out of steam and ends depleted in exhaustion. When The World Disintegrates Before Your Eyes was commissioned by Irving M. Klein International String Competition. A number of excellent violists have championed the work including Andrew Gonzalez, Dana Kelley, Teng Li, and Derek Smith. This is the transcription for violin from the original viola. For more info about this work click here.
Score is available as a downloadable PDF file.
