Clandeboye Overture (Orchestra)

Description

This overture celebrates the 20th anniversary of the Clandeboye festival. Symbolically, the chamber orchestra is comprised of 20 musicians, one for each year of the festival. This celebration is tempered with sorrow as this will be the first festival after the death of the festival’s patroness, Lindy Guinness. This overture begins with a lament for all those who died during the pandemic. Musicians are isolated within their own orchestral family as two plaintive lines move apart. The strings begin the difficult process of coming together again until they meet on a single note. The solo piano enters to connect the two diverging lines into a single melody, which draws the entire orchestra together for the first time. The lament shifts to a wild and irreverent dance, a festival atmosphere to mark the return of live music and a party to celebrate the memory of those we mourn.