After the Requiem

for electric guitar and strings

electric guitar and strings

Edition: Performance material

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The original After the Requiem had been written in 1990 for the electric guitar of Bill Frisell, plus 2 violas and cello (members of the Balanescu Quartet) specially for a recording by ECM. It is based on Cadman Requiem (1989) which had been written for the Hilliard Ensemble in memory of my friend and sound engineer Bill Cadman, who was killed in the Lockerbie air crash. The piece is "after" the Requiem both in the musical sense of being based on it, in the chronological sense of following on from it, and in the spiritual sense of representing that state which remains after mourning is (technically) over.

Gavin Bryars

Orchestral Cast

str(0.0.4.4.2)

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Title:

After the Requiem

for electric guitar and strings

Edition:

Performance material

Publisher/Label:

Schott Music

Year of composition:

1990 (2003)

Duration:

16 ′

World Premiere:

September 19, 2003 · Perth, WA (AUS)
His Majesty's Theatre
A Delicate Balance
Conductor: Dobbs Frank · West Australian Symphony Orchestra
Choreography: Matjash Mrozewski · Western Australia Ballet
(scenic)

Commissioned work :

Dedicated to Bill (Frisell and Cadman)