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Illusions
Conductor's score and parts on hire
978-0-19-362085-8
20 June 1997
Price: Available on request
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A colourful and evocative orchestral work. Forces or CategoryFull orchestraDuration12 minutesDifficultyDifficultOrchestration3 fl (II+afl, III+picc), 2 ob, ca, 2 cl, 2 bn, cbn, 4 hn, 3 tpt, 2 tbn, btbn, 2 perc (vib, w blk, temp blk, 3 sus cym (small, med, large), 2 tom, cas, timp, bongos, 2 timb, 3 roto-tom, tam, tamb), str (8, 8, 10, 7,
5)Programme NotesThe word illusions appears to have several meanings. In Shakespeares Henry VIII it is the devils illusion; to T.S. Eliot poetry could give the illusion of a view of life; to some it seems to suggest just a lie. Yet the philosopher Gorgias, whom Plato knew, said that the man who is deceived can have more wisdom than he who is not, and Coleridge talked of the willing suspension of disbelief. In this particular piece I felt that a number of purely musical illusions could make a kind of mosaic, following each other with little apparently connecting them. (Neither are these allusions to other musics - save to my own at moments, unless three chords near the beginning remind one of
the Magic Flute.) There is, at least to my mind, a connecting thread to Robert Johnson's setting of Hark, hark! the lark which apparently is accepted as being the original for Cymbeline in 1609. Illusions are obviously so much a part of theatre that this lute song formed a kind of illusion seed-bed for me. In my mind again there are, near the end, references to Gerard Manley Hopkins.
© John Buller
Reproduced by permission of Oxford University Press
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John Buller (1927-2004) John Buller was born in London in 1927. He enjoyed a musical childhood, but it was not until this thirties, after a career as an architectural surveyor, that his began to concentrate on his musical career. In 1975 he became Composer-in-Residence at the University of Edinburgh, as holder of the visiting Forman Fellowship. In 1978 he was awarded an Arts Council Bursary and in 1985-6 he was Composer-in-Residence at Queens University, Belfast. He died in 2004.
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