Program notes

Moon and ocean for piano, opus 100 no.3 (2017)

  1. 1. Flowing, smooth
  2. 2. Slow, calm

Moon and ocean for piano consists of two short pieces. It is the third work in a series of pairs of short pieces in the opus 100 set: Prelude and Postscript, Two Interludes and now Moon and Ocean.  They are all fairly subdued pieces and quite short – about 5 minutes per pair.  Moon and ocean is based on a duet from a larger work, Southern Cantata.  The movement titles of the pieces come from the elegiac text, by Katherine Firth, for a duet in the cantata. Stephen Emmerson gave the first performance of Moon and ocean in Brisbane, shortly after it was finished, in September 2017.

The moon drowned in the ocean,
A silver coin.
Is water safer than land?

© Andrew Schultz, 2017.


 

Andrew Schultz –  Moon and Ocean

Stephen Emmerson (piano), Ian Hanger Hall, Queensland Conservatorium, September 2017, premiere performance.

 

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