Britta Byström
Picnic At Hanging Rock
Britta Byström
Picnic At Hanging Rock
- Compositor Britta Byström
- Editorial Edition Wilhelm Hansen
- Nº de pedido WH31154
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Picnic At Hanging Rock (Utflykt til det okända) for Orchestra by Britta Byström (2010).
Programme Note
'What we see and what we seem are but adream, a dream within a dream' - These words opens Peter Wier's film on Joan Lindsay's novel Picnic at Hanging Rock from 1967. The story takes place on Valentines Day 1900. A groupof school girls go on a picnic at Hanging Rock in Australia and get caught up in a volcanic eruption. Three of the girls disappear without a trace - as if they where swallowed up by the mountain.
Inspiredby Peter Weir's poetic and many layered film I have composed a tone poem - with the emphasis on poem - or poetry - as opposed to programme music. Disappearance is an important motif. The piece is aseries of disappearances and transformations - one after another. At the end you can hear how the sound of the orchestra disappears in a swarm of clanging triangles - a way of picturing the girls disappearing into themountain.
I have tried to catch several other of the characteristics of the film: The school girls in their white dresses, the dangerous yet alluring mountain where the watches mysteriously stop at 12, the spellthat makes the girls climb higher and higher, and - at the end - the unanswered hesitant question: what really did happen?
Britta Byström
Programme Note
'What we see and what we seem are but adream, a dream within a dream' - These words opens Peter Wier's film on Joan Lindsay's novel Picnic at Hanging Rock from 1967. The story takes place on Valentines Day 1900. A groupof school girls go on a picnic at Hanging Rock in Australia and get caught up in a volcanic eruption. Three of the girls disappear without a trace - as if they where swallowed up by the mountain.
Inspiredby Peter Weir's poetic and many layered film I have composed a tone poem - with the emphasis on poem - or poetry - as opposed to programme music. Disappearance is an important motif. The piece is aseries of disappearances and transformations - one after another. At the end you can hear how the sound of the orchestra disappears in a swarm of clanging triangles - a way of picturing the girls disappearing into themountain.
I have tried to catch several other of the characteristics of the film: The school girls in their white dresses, the dangerous yet alluring mountain where the watches mysteriously stop at 12, the spellthat makes the girls climb higher and higher, and - at the end - the unanswered hesitant question: what really did happen?
Britta Byström