• Concert study for solo violin

   

   

   

• Duration: 6' 1"
• in 1 movement
• Composed in 2011
• ISMN 979-0-9016515-1-7
• Parts: To purchase the score, please email rc@robertcasteels.com, or send a request to Orchard Post Office P.O. Box 714 Singapore 912324

In this virtuosic concert study, the solo violin impersonates both the orator and the crowd during an electoral rally. The whirl of scales expresses the inner awe of the orator about to address the crowd as well as the indistinct noise of thousands of waiting women and men. The crowd swells and surges. The crowd grows impatient. At last the orator clears his throat and starts his address. What ensues is a dynamic between speaker and listeners. The speaker is in turn emphatic, eloquent, rhetorical, calm and optimistic. The listeners hammer a slogan of two crochets followed by two quavers, in turn gloomy, threatening, defiant, persistent, enthusiastic, and impassioned. At the end of the speech, both the orator and the crowd unanimously voice their slogan a final time.