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The piece Brilliant Blue written for Joe Eckert and Janet Pummill, presents an image of vitality, yet with the implications of both jazz and of quieter moods that blue brings with it.
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Brilliant Blue (2010) Till MacIvor Meyn (b. 1971)
This piece entitled “Brilliant Blue” was first premiered in 2010 on a faculty saxophone recital, but has had no International performance. This would be the European premiere of this new work for saxophone and piano.
I. Freely; with rigor
II. B.N.B.
III. With Energy
Joe Eckert, Alto Saxophone
Hannah Creviston, piano
Brilliant Blue was written for Joe Eckert, alto saxophone, and Janet Pummill, piano. To me, Brilliant Blue presented an image of vitality, yet with the implications of both jazz and of quieter moods that blue brings with it. The first movement is through composed: It begins with a saxophone solo that returns toward the end, and has highly contrapuntal piano lines in various middle sections. The second movement has a subtitle: “Bad News Beethoven.” The obvious opening motive quickly gives way to a moderate groove with a very jazzy feel. The final movement contains fragments of melody, chords, and counterpoint that I have been saving and wanting to use; they seemed to go together well, so I arranged them into one movement.