Andrew Ford talks about The Waltz Book, part 2

In this interview, composer Andrew Ford discusses his award-winning work The Waltz Book, recently (2010) released on CD by the Australian record label Tall Poppies, performed by Ian Munro. The Waltz Book is a sequence of 60 one-minute waltzes for solo piano, composed sporadically between 1998 and 2002. As a compendium of personal experiences, its four-and-a-half year period of creation allowed a digest of references to accrue, taking in births, marriages, deaths, homages, greetings and assorted stories. Binding these often contrasting musical "post-it notes" together are seven "Invocations", strategically positioned as invitations to reflect on what is coming and what has just passed.
The Waltz Book was awarded the 2003 Jean Bogan Memorial Prize for keyboard music.
Interview by Belinda Webster, video by Stephen Fearnley

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