SCORES
PARAPHRASE
Nicholas Keyworth
ABOUT
As a young composer, fresh out of University, I had started my first teaching post at The Collegiate School near Bristol. The former music teacher, Enid Hunt was an avid recorder player and she suggested I wrote a short piece for the Bristol Branch of The Society of Recorder Players which she had founded with her brother Edgar in 1948. The SRP continues to be a thriving community across the UK with over 1300 recorder-loving musicians.
My brief was to involve all instruments in the recorder family, to be contemporary and challenging, and to expand their repertoire. The result was Paraphrase which I directed in a workshop and subsequent performance with the group way back in 1982. I have now revisited this piece, typeset it in Sibelius and sorted out a few anomalies. It is a useful piece to add into any programme for performance.
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INSTRUMENTATION
DURATION
3′ 25”
DATE OF COMPOSITION
1982 Rev.2026
PERFORMANCES
1992 (World Premiere)
The Society of Recorder Players (Bristol Branch), Clifton, Bristol
