{"id":530,"date":"2018-02-19T18:32:44","date_gmt":"2018-02-19T17:32:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/georgehollowaycomposer.com\/?p=530"},"modified":"2023-08-25T21:50:59","modified_gmt":"2023-08-25T20:50:59","slug":"novella-chapter-one-for-cello-and-piano-forthcoming-project-taster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgehollowaycomposer.com\/?p=530","title":{"rendered":"Novella (Chapter One) for cello and piano (Premiere, Dec. 2017)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In November\/December 2017 I was honoured to visit Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music, and rehearse my piece for cello and piano, Novella (Chapter One) with Fang Yijia and Li Xinyuan.\u00a0 They premiered the work on the 1st December, in what was one of the most enjoyable and awe-inspiring concerts I&#8217;ve ever seen (check out the poster below and you&#8217;ll understand why).<\/p>\n<p>Click on the bandcamp link to hear two extracts from the piece.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- Starting bandcamp iframe embed for https:\/\/4b50c359c885eb28d21519c789a1d965.bandcamp.com\/album\/2662649655\/track\/2585904675\/ --><iframe src='https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=2662649655\/track=2585904675\/size=small\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5' class='embed-iframe embed-bandcamp' width='100' height='42' data-url='https:\/\/4b50c359c885eb28d21519c789a1d965.bandcamp.com\/album\/2662649655\/track\/2585904675\/' frameborder='0' style='width:100%;min-width:170px;max-width:100%;' allowfullscreen='true' webkitallowfullscreen='true' mozallowfullscreen='true' oallowfullscreen='true' msallowfullscreen='true' ><strong>HTML Embed: An unidentified error has occurred.<\/strong><span class=\"error-message\">This feature requires inline frames. 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You have iframes disabled or your browser does not support them.<\/span><span class=\"error-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/4264e1959bacc3f5adb59b0bbf56f2bf.bandcamp.com\/album\/2662649655\/track\/201484938\/\" target=\"_blank\">Open link in a new tab.<\/a><\/span><\/iframe><!-- Ending bandcamp iframe embed for https:\/\/4264e1959bacc3f5adb59b0bbf56f2bf.bandcamp.com\/album\/2662649655\/track\/201484938\/ --><!-- Cached embed generated on June 27th 2026, 06:06:37 PM) -->\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Programme note:<\/p>\n<p>In recent pieces I have used certain different ways of forming the musical structure.\u00a0\u00a0 Three or four pieces have been strictly \u201cgeometric\u201d or \u201carchitectural\u201d, in which I proceeded from a global concept of the structure, and juxtaposed proportionally related blocks of different material to form an overall whole.<br \/>\nIn <em>Novella <\/em>I attempt the opposite: not to think about proportion or length at all, but to proceed organically from start to 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