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Hall of Ghosts (for Solo Piccolo)

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Hall of Ghosts was composed in 2020 during the COVID-19 lockdown period; it was inspired by piccoloist Gudrun Hinze’s video for Harberg’s Prayer Project filmed in the hauntingly empty Gewandhaus Chamber Music Hall. Evocative of imagined spirits in the empty hall, the music pits dramatic silences, amid searching and plaintive phrases of the piccolo, against a lively middle section—a dialogue between the ticking of time and an instrument striving to make itself heard.

Hall of Ghosts (for Solo Piccolo),
by Amanda Harberg, Theodore Presser Company, www.presser.com.







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