componist

Taylor, Nestor

Nestor Taylor was born to a very prominent Greek family, in Melbourne, Australia. He studied piano, harmony and counterpoint at the Athens Conservatory with George Diamantis and composer, Menelaos Pallantios.

gerelateerde werken

Children's Garden : for female choir and piano / Nestor Taylor; lyrics by R.L. Stevenson

Genre: Vocaal
Subgenre: Gemengd koor en piano
Bezetting: GK pf

Sentences : for orchestra, 2003 / Lars Skoglund

Genre: Orkest
Subgenre: Orkest
Bezetting: 3333 4431 timp 2perc cel str(14.12.10.8.6)

Balletto serioso : (l'apparecchio minacciante), (1956) / Henk Badings

Genre: Orkest
Subgenre: Orkest
Bezetting: 2232 4331 timp 2-3perc pf cel str

Preludium en fuga : orchestra, (1946/orch. '48) / Jaap Geraedts

Genre: Orkest
Subgenre: Orkest
Bezetting: 2322 4220 timp str

compositie

Pandemonium : Symphonic Fantasy for large orchestra / Nestor Taylor

Toelichting:
Pandemonium – Πανδαιμόνιο: wild and noisy disorder or confusion; uproar. This is the dictionary’s definition for this noun. More importantly perhaps, ‘pandemonium’ tells you it’s alright to be wild, to be crazy, to get out there and tear up the world. Have a course of action? Disrupt it. Randomly decide that purple and neon green are perfectly complimentary colors? Wear them!
A similarly open-ended esthetic approach was adopted when writing my Symphonic Fantasy for large orchestra under the same title. Pandemonium presents a fusion of conflicting styles, embracing different historical periods that curiously enough, are able to coexist in a new, more pluralistic time-order, with no boundaries. Formally, there is very little repetition allowing music ideas to be in a state of constant flux, proliferating and reorganizing themselves in unexpected ways. Pandemonium is dedicated with gratitude to Myron Michailidis and the Erfurt Philharmonic orchestra.
Nestor Taylor 18.02.2020