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A Better Place
Vocal and instrumental scores and parts on hire
978-0-19-335466-1
31 May 2001
Price: Available on request
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A chamber opera for 4 singers and 15 instrumentalists Forces or Category4 singers & ensembleDuration50 minutesDifficultyModerately difficult to DifficultOrchestrationfl (+picc), ob, 2 cl (II+bcl), bn, 2 hn, perc (tam, mba, glock, log drs, tem blks, tri, vib, SD, small sus cym, cabasa, tamb, scaffold bar), vln, 2 vla, vc, dbProgramme
NotesThis Chamber Opera in one act, with a libretto by Cindy Oswin, A Better Place was commissioned and first performed by English National Opera (ENO). The premiere took place at the Coliseum in London in July 2001 to critical acclaim.
"Subtly harmonised, tautly argued and frequently ravishing to the ear." (Financial Times)
"Rich, aquaeous music" (The Independent)
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Martin Butler (b.1960) Martin Butler was born in Romsey, England, in 1960 and studied at the University of Manchester and the Royal Northern College of Music. In 1983 he received a Fulbright Award for study at Princeton University, USA, where he was resident until 1987. From 1998-1999 Martin was Composer-in-Residence at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton in the United States. He is currently Professor of Music at the University of Sussex.
Butler's works are widely performed and broadcast both in the UK and abroad.More on Martin Butler from the British Music Information Centre
Martin Butler at the University of Sussex
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"Butler's writing is suggestive and compelling. His music has a satisfyingly involved, Dickensian relationship to the river. The Thames - painted through waves of Debussian harmony, the ripple of marimba, and the occasional icy glint of harmonics - forms an artery for Suzanne's thoughts; the element that separates and joins her to her former life on the opposite bank; the stygian domain of her ghostly stalker, Siward, and the repetitive tidal chime of her grief. This wasn't just a première of a superb work, it was a superb première of a superb work." - Anna Picard, The Independent on Sunday
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