Scored
for guitar, flute and Bb clarinet,
vers libre
(meaning "free verse") threads through a succession of musical landscapes,
punctuated by colouristic events and frequent upheavals in pulse (governed by
metric modulations), never pausing to cast an eye backwards.
The
work was premiered at the Nelson Composers' Workshop by Dylan Lardelli (guitar),
Kirstin Eade (flute), Andrew Uren
(clarinet) and Ewan Clark (conductor) in early July 2002 and recorded later that
month by the same musicians at Victoria University's Adam Concert Room.
It received a subsequent performance by Dylan Lardelli
(gt.), Hiyeun Chun (fl.) and Younggun Lee (cl.) at the 2003 ACL Forum in Seoul,
Korea.
...vers libre...
is published by Waiteata
Press and features on a CD
of works by emerging New Zealand composers.
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Kirstin Eade (fl.),
Andrew Uren (cl.), Dylan Lardelli (guit.),
Ewan Clark (cond.), recorded by
Michael Parsons