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Pastorale
I wrote this composition in commission of Jan de Rooy, the violin-teacher and novelist, I mentioned before at 'Branoul' and 'Calling in the desert'. He asked me to write some things to accompany poems by Emily Dickinson, which should be performed in a literary program he presented in Literary theatre Branoul. It should be performed with the computer and a synthesizer and I wrote a piece for saxophone quartet. It took me three days in November 1992 to write it. It was based on the poem 'The Snake', but it is never performed the way I wrote it. Anne-Marie Heyligers, a Dutch actress who should read the poem, had a small snake in mind and according to her the piece should be higher in pitch and played quicker. I raised it an octave and let the computer play it at double speed. In this way 'The snake' came into being.
This original version is quite boring and to be honest, this is not one of my best compositions and perhaps it should be forgotten.
Recorded: 26/4/'93, 2/2/'00
Instrument used for the recording: E-mu Proteus/1
Instruments the music is written for:
Soprano saxophone
Alto saxophone
Tenor saxophone
Baritone saxophone

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from Electronic chamber music and more, released May 14, 2012
Renate Gabrielle Methöfer

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Rare Bird Productions Netherlands

At the end of 1994, I started using the name Rare Bird Productions, to pay a tribute to my favorite group Hoelderlin. This German group has recorded a song called ‘Rare bird', which I liked very much. Besides this, I felt the lyrics, which were about the German poet Friedrich Hölderlin, described my own feelings as well. ... more

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