{"id":288,"date":"2020-11-10T11:19:29","date_gmt":"2020-11-10T11:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/australianpianotrios.com\/?page_id=288"},"modified":"2024-08-28T12:27:28","modified_gmt":"2024-08-28T12:27:28","slug":"hiscocks-wendy-b-1963-coral-fantasy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/australianpianotrios.com\/?page_id=288","title":{"rendered":"Hiscocks, Wendy (b. 1963) \u2013 Coral fantasy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1248px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_2_3 2_3 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:66.666666666667%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:2.88%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:2.88%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-video fusion-youtube\" style=\"--awb-max-width:600px;--awb-max-height:360px;--awb-align-self:center;--awb-width:100%;\"><div class=\"video-shortcode\"><div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\" style=\"padding-top:60%;\" ><iframe class=\"fusion-hidden\" data-privacy-type=\"youtube\" src=\"\" title=\"YouTube video player 1\" data-privacy-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uVRBTVcjz3U?wmode=transparent&autoplay=0\" width=\"600\" height=\"360\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\"><\/iframe><div class=\"fusion-privacy-placeholder\" style=\"width:600px; height:360px;\" data-privacy-type=\"youtube\"><div class=\"fusion-privacy-placeholder-content\"><div class=\"fusion-privacy-label\">For privacy reasons YouTube needs your permission to be loaded.<\/div><a href=\"\" data-privacy-type=\"youtube\" class=\"fusion-button button-default fusion-button-default-size button fusion-privacy-consent\">I Accept<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><h4 class=\"fusion-responsive-typography-calculated\" style=\"--fontsize: 28; line-height: 1.36; --minfontsize: 28;\" data-fontsize=\"28\" data-lineheight=\"38.08px\">&#8220;Landscapes&#8221; program note<\/h4>\n<p><i>Coral fantasy<\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: var(--body_typography-color); font-family: var(--body_typography-font-family); font-size: var(--body_typography-font-size); font-style: var(--body_typography-font-style,normal); font-weight: var(--body_typography-font-weight); letter-spacing: var(--body_typography-letter-spacing);\">Composer-pianist Wendy Hiscocks grew up in Wollongong, NSW. She began playing the piano at a young age, and started composing in her teens, going on to study composition with Peter Sculthorpe at the University of Sydney. Hiscocks moved to London in 1988, and has received commissions, premi\u00e8res and broadcasts from distinguished soloists, ensembles, choirs and festivals from around the world. Hiscocks has completed a doctorate on the music of Arthur Benjamin, and has strong interest and growing involvement in curated performance and recordings involving especially film and media.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><i>Coral Fantasy<\/i> was commissioned by the trio <i>Triangulus <\/i>with funding from the Arts Council of Great Britain, and was premiered at the King of Hearts in Norwich, UK in 1994. At the time, Hiscocks had a number of connections to the ballet world \u2013 she was undertaking adult classes, accompanying a children\u2019s ballet school, and also had a number of friends who were dancers \u2013 one of whom sparked the idea of a ballet about life under the sea. Hiscocks is gifted with multi-sensory synaesthesia, and this experience is reflected in the way she is able to capture, through musical means, the movement, colours, light flashes and textures that one would experience in the world of a coral reef.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Coral Fantasy consists of a series of short, continuous sections. The harmonic and textural language is reminiscent of the impressionistic style of Debussy and Ravel, with subtle and intricate dynamic, articulation and pedalling indications. The opening, <i>sunlight dancing on the waves<\/i>, is marked \u2018lively and bright\u2019, and is joyful and witty and sparkling. It gradually submerges into <i>under the sea<\/i> which opens with a <i>ppp<\/i> crotchet duet in the strings, marked \u2018sul tasto, non vib.\u2019 The warm mid-range and deeper tones of the cello and piano are explored in this section. <i>The coral reef<\/i> features arpeggiandi chords in the piano (like seaweed gently swaying in the water) interjected with flowing semiquavers. <i>Coral anemone<\/i> opens with a brief waltz, and then the textures lift to a floating <i>Jellyfish<\/i> section; in <i>Fish <\/i>you can hear the gently swaying side-fins in the strings; <i>Clownfish<\/i> is marked \u2018playful\u2019 and \u2018laughing\u2019; <i>Rising to the Surface<\/i> swirls and lifts, over and over, gradually settling into <i>Sunset<\/i>, which revisits motifs from throughout the work, and represents an expansive tropical horizon, fading into a timeless night sky banded across by the Milky Way.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-1 fusion_builder_column_1_3 1_3 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:33.333333333333%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:5.76%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:28.8%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\" data-scroll-devices=\"small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-image-element \" style=\"--awb-caption-title-font-family:var(--h2_typography-font-family);--awb-caption-title-font-weight:var(--h2_typography-font-weight);--awb-caption-title-font-style:var(--h2_typography-font-style);--awb-caption-title-size:var(--h2_typography-font-size);--awb-caption-title-transform:var(--h2_typography-text-transform);--awb-caption-title-line-height:var(--h2_typography-line-height);--awb-caption-title-letter-spacing:var(--h2_typography-letter-spacing);\"><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-1 hover-type-none\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"5504\" height=\"8256\" title=\"Wendy portrait b&#038;w 2019\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%275504%27%20height%3D%278256%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%205504%208256%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%275504%27%20height%3D%278256%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-orig-src=\"http:\/\/australianpianotrios.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Wendy-portrait-bw-2019.jpg\" alt class=\"lazyload img-responsive wp-image-345\"\/><\/span><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-2\"><p>Wendy Hiscocks (Photo provided by composer)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\" data-fusion-font=\"true\">The score for &#8216;Coral Fantasy&#8217; can be purchased from the <\/span><a style=\"font-size: 20px;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.australianmusiccentre.com.au\/workversion\/hiscocks-wendy-coral-fantasy\/14318\" data-fusion-font=\"true\">Australian Music Centre.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Background photo credit: ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-video fusion-youtube\" style=\"--awb-max-width:600px;--awb-max-height:360px;\"><div class=\"video-shortcode\"><div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\" style=\"padding-top:60%;\" ><iframe class=\"fusion-hidden\" data-privacy-type=\"youtube\" src=\"\" title=\"YouTube video player 2\" data-privacy-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nMAzchVWTis?wmode=transparent&autoplay=0\" width=\"600\" height=\"360\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\"><\/iframe><div class=\"fusion-privacy-placeholder\" style=\"width:600px; height:360px;\" data-privacy-type=\"youtube\"><div class=\"fusion-privacy-placeholder-content\"><div class=\"fusion-privacy-label\">For privacy reasons YouTube needs your permission to be loaded.<\/div><a href=\"\" data-privacy-type=\"youtube\" class=\"fusion-button button-default fusion-button-default-size button fusion-privacy-consent\">I Accept<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":15,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - 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