em-1970-vic-hoyland-excerpt

The third article in a series on pieces for young players from the 1960s and 70s

Curated by Composer, Sound artist and Musician, Duncan Chapman.

 

The Music For Young Players pieces were intended to be a performance repertoire. Elis Pehkonen (composer of My Cats) had a percussion ensemble at Cirencester school (he succeeded Peter Maxwell Davies) that toured extensively in the UK, Europe and Australia and even appeared on Blue Peter

Brian Dennis Aquarelle:

You can hear an excerpt here: 

aquarelle-cirencester-1970

Many of the pieces have special notations for extended effects. This is from the instruction page for EM by Vic Hoyland.

You can hear part of EM here: 

em-1970-vic-hoyland-excerpt

You can find the full exhibiton on the Google Cultural Institute here: http://bit.ly/2oPmzJ4


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Music for Young Players - PERFORMING