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CHAMBER (instrumental)

AFTER THE CRASH

Instrumentation:

2.1.1.0. 1.0.1.0 2 perc 1.0.1.1.1

Duration:

5'

First Performance:

15 February 2008, Duke's Hall, RAM, London. Pierre-André Valade, conductor

Score available here.

Programme note:

Standing by the edge of the M6 in Lancashire, waiting. Calm; not what I would have expected. The sequence of events circling my mind incessantly seems unreal, disconnected from me, as though from a half-remembered movie. The fluke of our unscathed survival is of too great a magnitude to grasp, so I watch the crash in my mind’s eye, again and again. A strange melancholy colours everything.