Tempered Magazine December 2013 // January 2014 // Issue 01

PAUL CANTRELL ‘98 The Broken Mirror of Memory, Part II About the Work The second of a two-part series, the piece is a duet for bass clarinet and piano. The past century gave us a school of thought that musicians must “respect the intentions of the composer” by treating scores with a reverential literalism, striving to play everything exactly as marked and to add nothing. As a composer, I want you to be free from that literalism. You have not only my permission, but my entreaty: please don’t treat my music that way! The score is only the skeleton of the music. The intention of this particular composer is for performers to interpret the score: stretch the pulse; stretch the dynamics; shape every phrase; play expressions that aren’t on the page; contradict expressions that are; summon every color and nuance of your instrument in the service of musicality; take liberties; take risks! To hear more of Paul’s work, visit http://innig.net/music/inthehands 22

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