Black Sun (trombone quartet)

Instrumentation: trombone quartet

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PROGRAMME NOTE

Black Sun is a four movement work for trombone quartet inspired by artistic representations of the Sun: Olafur Elliasson’s The Weather Project – a blazing light project that filled the Tate’s Turbine Hall in 2003; Monet’s Impression, Sunrise – with it’s pure orange sun playfully glistening over a boat filled body of water; Turner’s Sun Setting Over a Lake – a vivid, red sunset set against hazy and impressionistic landscape; and Damien Hurst’s Black Sun – a dark black disk covered in thousands of dead flies.

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