Munch Pictures

Jazz4theausterity

Skedaddle

Some odd bits.  Departure of the Queen of Sheba (apologies to Handel); Duet for Harp and Piano; Humoresque; I Want to See You (piano); Overture to Mason and Dixon (my great unfinished opera); an arrangement of Pachelbel's Chanconne; Ten Tiny Tunes (1. Prelude; 2. Humming Tune; 3. March; 4. Sugar Rush; 5. Easy Bruv; 6. Looking Out of the Window; 7. Sepia Tones; 8. Walter the Dog; 9. Invention; 10. Sea Shanty and Coda); a piece for piano Trio; Ukrainian Overture (containing several Ukraine “folk” melodies, plus a few I made up, and begins with the Ukrainian Bell Carol.  Later there’s a touch of the 1812s and a quote from another Russian and the end.  Boy, can those Cossacks samba!); Waltz at the End of Year (note the chimes); and Vienna (a polka, Another great unfinished project: to write a musical drama about The Congress of Vienna 1814-15, which redesigned Europe after the Napoleonic War.  OK – bear with me. It was a bit like an early 19th Century G8 summit with huge state balls, lavish banquets and lots of political (and sexual) intrigue. The main characters are figures like the scheming Prince Metternich of Austria, the stolid Viscount Castlereagh and his devoted wife, the religious maniac Tsar Alexander I, the vacillating Frederick William III of Prussia, the bluff Duke of Wellington, and the untrustworthy super-survivor Talleyrand the foreign minister of France who served Louis XVI, Napoleon and the Bourbon monarchy (and apparently invented the word ‘legitimacy.’) Also among the cast are their various wives, their female confidantes and their (shared) aristocratic mistresses who are actually running the show, plus a male chorus of dispossessed German Princes.  And to cap it all, halfway through the bed-hopping and diplomatic shenanigans, Napoleon escaped from Elba and they had to fight the Battle of Waterloo. Convinced? Here’s a sketch. The first scene is a glittering ballroom. The marble floor is in-laid with a map of Europe. Enter the cast who dance a vigorous polka, changing partners and alliances while stamping gleefully on the continent beneath their feet.

Duet For Harp And Piano

Ukrainian Overture

Munch Pictures - Self Portrait 1882

Munch causes a scandal with his picture 'The Sick Child', an image  based on the death of his sister Sophie

Munch Pictures - Sick Child 1885

'I felt a huge scream course through nature...'

Munch Pictures - The Scream 1893

'Together with her I had experienced nature as a festival of celebration'

Munch Pictures - Madonna 1895

In the middle of a meadow on a summer's night a young priest is dancing with a woman...To the left, a woman in a flower-patterned dress stretches out to pick a flower.

Munch Pictures - Dance Of Life 1900

Music for when you have to get up too early

Silly O Clock

Hurry Up

We've all experienced one - or delivered one

Killer Blow

Dance Like Batman

Rattlesnake In The Sun

A Stroll From Frick To Brassing

Let Your Head Take Off

I Don't Need That Shit

Latin Primer

Over Wintering

In austerity, people need entertainment.  I’ve never had a composition lesson in my life and I compose because I enjoy it and because I want to see if I can do it. I write for orchestra and large ensembles. There are also smaller string quartet and solo pieces.

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