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Puppet Ballet.(Book Review)
by Gordon Carr. Broadbent & Dunn Ltd./Theodore Presser (588 N. Gulph Rd., King of Prussia, PA 19406), 2001. 14pp., $14.95. Late intermediate.
What a delight it was to listen to the Puppet Ballet by Gordon Carr. This wonderful piano piece has the "devil in the details" and is a challenge for the advanced intermediate performer, as well as seasoned professionals. With work and patience, however, it is by no means inaccessible to a variety of ages and skill levels.
Carr has constructed a charming four-movement work that aptly sounds like the title. The first movement dances between time signatures, creating the feeling of puppets not altogether in control of their faculties. The use of chromaticism throughout the movement and the grace notes in the last six measures add a heightened urgency to their clog dance-like stumbling.
The piece, heavily influenced by the twentieth-century masters, has a true Stravinsky-like character throughout the second movement, particularly starting at measure thirty-six. Quite simple in structure, the movement is unashamedly intense in nature, with special attention to be paid on measures forty-nine through fifty-two. Care should be taken to bring out the intensity without bitterness.
The third movement has a sweetness about it that almost apologizes for the second movement. Carr constructs some very nice jazz-like voicing at the beginning of the movement and uses it as a quasi-cantus firmus ...
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