Markku Klami | Composer
Glow
Ensemble
Composed:
2005
Score / parts
Instrumentation and duration
Clarinet, horn, trumpet, harp, percussion, piano (2 players)
Duration: 6 minutes
Movements
I.
II.
III.
Commission / dedications
Commissioned by the Kemiönsaari Music Guild
First performance
Henna Jämsä, clarinet, Jukka Rajala, trumpet, Tanja Nisonen, horn, Antti Suoranta, percussion, Lily-Marlene Puusepp, harp, Pasi Helin and Hanna Kosonen, piano, Kemiö Music Festival, Kemiö, Finland, June 29, 2005
Reflections
Concert review, published on Turun Sanomat by Tomi Norha
July 2, 2005
One of the best aspects of the Kemiö Music Festival is its commitment to supporting new creative music: every year features at least one premiere. This year set a new record with three commissioned works, two of which were heard at this children’s concert. Asta Hyvärinen’s Stride for harp was a study in tone color, deliberately avoiding traditional playing techniques. Harpist Lily-Marlene Puusepp demonstrated that both a candlestick and a harp can create fascinating sonic worlds.
Markku Klami’s Glow is a depiction of a natural landscape at the moment of sunrise, and—whether intentional or not—its melodic writing constantly reminded me of the beginning of Part II of Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring.
Both of the new works resonated well with the young audience. Even the youngest in our family, still just a baby in arms, listened with curious attention. My five- and nine-year-old sons summed up the concert with poetic simplicity: “Everything was excellent.”