Nigel Morgan - Worklist, 2015

Flightsviolin and percussion12 min"On the Lleyn Peninsula in North Wales model gliderenthusiasts fly their remote-controlledsailplanes off the mountain and over the highsea cliffs looking out across the Irish Seatowards the island of Bardsey, one of the greatcentres of pilgrimage in Celtic times."Imperativesstring quartet18 min“Imperatives are ‘doing words’ that carry with them atask, a situation, a request, a dream. Creativepractitioners are keen on such words and often use themto initiate a starting point, an emotional state, acharacteristic”TOUCHED BY MACHINE?A concert of four digital-mediated compositionsDUObass trombone and percussion(version for horn and percussion available)10 minTRIOviolin, clarinet, and piano12 minQUARTETstring quartet25 minEDGEwind quartet (and optional drum machine)15 min"How have new technologieschanged the process ofcomposition and performance?What new possibilities areaesthetically and artisticallyrelevant? How do the new toolsallow us to use musicalmaterial differently?"A World of Miracles: 12 Reflections onChildhood and Memoryviolin and piano22 min“Kinderszenen and Dicterliebe have provided both ascaffolding and a starting point, embodying as they doreflections about innocence and the loss of what hasonce been loved.”ChoralNine Figures on a Hill (from Family of Man)choral songs for double choir (SSAATTBB)Words by Margaret Morgan17 min“I can see the horizon through your eye.I see winter and summer in equal measure.You are the sum of lines stretchedto all possible opposites.”Five Studies after Josef Albers(from Conversations in Colour)choir (SATB) and pianoWords by Josef Albers, Bridget Riley and MargaretMorgan (after Lucretius)15 minVocalism (from Schizophonia)choir (SATB) and electric pianoWords by Walt Whitman12 min“Seeing of ears invites to speakknowing of eyes invites to know.”“Vocalism, measure, concentration,determination, and the divinepower to speak words;Are you full-lung'd and limber-lipp'd from long trial? fromvigorous practice? from physique?”4