Your cart

Total
NZD
Shipping and discount codes are added at checkout.

Work


Impossible Songs

for string quartet and soprano voice

Year:  2009   ·  Duration:  13m

Year:  2009
Duration:  13m

Composer:   Samuel Holloway

Films, Audio & Samples

Samuel Holloway: Impossible...

Embedded audio
See details ➔
Sample Score

Sample: Page 1

See details ➔

Borrow/Hire:

To borrow items or hire parts please email SOUNZ directly at [email protected].

About

Impossible Songs was written in 2009 for the Karlheinz Company, with funding from Creative New Zealand. Each movement derives its title from Alan Loney’s dear Webern, a poem composed of selected phrases from the letters of Anton Webern.


Commissioned note

Commissioned by the Karlheinz Company, with funding from Creative New Zealand


Contents note


1. everything in this piece is derived
2. the idea is in retrograde
3. the second movement is finished
4. the new song impossible
5. this is how it stands


Performance history

04 Oct 2009: Karlheinz Company 2009

17 Apr 2012: New Zealand in L.A.