Chamber Music Guitar SKU: PR.114410840
A Sleepless Nocturne for Guitar. Composed by Michael Karmon. Solo part. With Standard notation. Composed 1998. Duration 15 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #114-41084. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.114410840). UPC: 680160015689.
See the biography of Michael Karmon on the back cover.
WHEN THE SHEEP WON'T COME: A SLEEPLESS NOCTURNE FOR GUITAR was composed for Joseph Hagedorn, winner of the 1990 GFA solo competition, and premiered by him in November 1999. My original idea was to write a serene and moody nocturne in several movements. However, as I began researching and listening to new guitar pieces, I came across Toru Takemitsu's All in Twilight, and it immediately made a profound impression. At the time I found it beautiful, moving, and inspiring, but I also felt I didn't have anything to add to what Takemitsu already did, and that I needed to find a new concept for my piece. So, I decided to view night as a potentially restless time, rather than a serene time, and portray states of mind one might go through during a sleepless night. The names of the movements evoke, at least in my mind, the moods I am to depict, and the piece becomes progressively more convoluted as it goes on. By the end, the music is a surreal and weary shadow of the opening.
