Instrumental Duet Double Bass,Instrumental Duet,Voice - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1033347 Composed by Mr Chris Boyder and Chris Palazzolo. Arranged by Mr John Beaverstock. Contemporary,Jazz,World. Score and parts. 6 pages. Mr Chris Boyder #6353419. Published by Mr Chris Boyder (A0.1033347). A Life in Music: Words by Chris Palazzolo, is a performance piece commissioned by solo Double Bassist Chris Boyder. There are extended contemporary bowing and fingering techniques, along with full musical gammon of baroque, classical, romantic, impressionism, neoclassicism, serialism, cadenzas with extreme quarter tones and hyper harmonic glissandos, Jazz and guitar like pizzicatos... In-fact everything that is at the Double Bass players sound sonority is requested. The poet is required to make a pointing hand gesture to the Double Bass every-time to word There/Not there is iterated. The words reflect a full life span, from birth, childhood, manhood and as an elder. The poem also appears in Palazzolo's book of poetry Unhoused: available through Amazon books and Regime Publishers. The recording is found on both CD and Vinyl, worldwide on Ebay: Chris Boyder in Recital CD & Chris Boyder Double Bass Virtuoso Vinyl.
