Douglas Young - The Hunting of the Snark
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Label: Cameo Classics
Cat No: CC9106
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 3rd August 2018
Contents
Artists
Peter Easton (narrator)Douglas Young (piano, percussion)
The Leicestershire Chorale
Members of the Leicestershire Schools Symphony Orchestra
Conductor
Peter FletcherWorks
The Hunting of the Snark (Lewis Carroll): An agony in 8 fitsArtists
Peter Easton (narrator)Douglas Young (piano, percussion)
The Leicestershire Chorale
Members of the Leicestershire Schools Symphony Orchestra
Conductor
Peter FletcherAbout
The Hunting of the Snark shares its fictional setting with Lewis Carroll's earlier poem "Jabberwocky" published in his children's novel Through the Looking-Glass (1871). Eight nonsense words from "Jabberwocky" appear in The Hunting of the Snark: bandersnatch, beamish, frumious, galumphing, jubjub, mimsiest (which previously appeared as mimsy in "Jabberwocky"), outgrabe and uffish. In a letter to the mother of his young friend Gertrude Chataway, Carroll described the domain of the Snark as "an island frequented by the Jubjub and the Bandersnatch—no doubt the very island where the Jabberwock was slain."
Douglas Young – born in London in 1947, won the competition scholarship to the Royal College of Music, London and the Karl Rankl Prize for orchestral composition. In 1974 he founded the ensemble ‘Dreamtiger’ exploring the conflict between East and West, the influence of the postwar avant garde and non-European culture and popular music (f rom Irish folk music to rap). His scores for the Royal ballet led to a commission from the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich for a full-length ballet, Lugwig, hailed by the German press as a perfect exemplar of postmodernism. In the 90’s Young widened his scope to encompass jazz, popular dance music, film scores and even advertising jingles - transformed into a personal musical universe that has the same sense of fun and daring as Calvino’s Cosmicomics.
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