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Music of Colin Matthews at New World Symphony

Mar. 30, 2010

Michael Tilson Thomas and the New World Symphony pay homage to Claude Debussy in April with four concerts of his orchestral and chamber masterworks. Included in the Debussy celebration are two works by Colin Matthews that channel the impressionistic sensibilities of the French master. On Sunday, April 25th Maestro Thomas leads musicians from the NWS through a chamber music program that includes Matthews’ Time Stands Still alongside Debussy’s three chamber sonatas and his Petite Suite for piano.

On April 30th the focus turns to symphonic works as the NWS performs Colin Matthews’ arrangements of selected Debussy preludes as well as his work Hidden Variables. An exciting conflagration of musical styles giving rise to unexpected juxtapositions, and, in the composer’s own words, “something going on beneath the surface,” Hidden Variables has been described as a philosophical discourse on order and chaos and was originally composed in 1989 for 15 instruments before Matthews arranged it for large orchestra in 1991.

Visit www.fabermusic.com for more on the music of Colin Matthews.

To find out more about the performances, please go to www.nws.edu.

Colin Matthews
Hidden Variables (1989/1991)
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Three Preludes (Debussy) (2001)
orchestrated by Colin Matthews
I. Ce qu’a vu le Vent d’Ouest
II. Feuilles mortes
III. Feux d’artifice
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