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Trackway of Time

for baritone and chamber orchestra
text from "The Clock-Winder" by Thomas Hardy
baritone and chamber orchestra
Edition: Performance material

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Trackway of Time is a setting of ‘The Clock-Winder’, a wonderful poem by Thomas Hardy, in which an old parish-clerk climbs the church tower every night to wind the clock: ‘Nightly thus does he climb/To the trackway of time.’ When asked why he continues to do this, he explains: ‘So I wipe out one more … of the sore/Sad days …’ that separate him from an unknown beloved. The physical (climbing), mechanical (clock), and emotional (loss) are brought together in this poem in a most extraordinary way, and that was its appeal in wanting to find a musical response to the words. John Casken

Orchestral Cast

2.0.2.2-2.0.0.0-perc(vib, crot, tam-t, bell-plate, b.d., vibraslap, wdblk)-str

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Title:
Trackway of Time
for baritone and chamber orchestra
text from "The Clock-Winder" by Thomas Hardy
Language:
English
Edition:
Performance material
Publisher/Label:
Schott Music Ltd., London
Year of composition:
2014 - 2015
Duration:
11 ′
World Premiere:
June 15, 2015 · Durham (UK)
Durham Cathedral
Sir Thomas Allen, baritone · Conductor: Oliver Zeffman · Durham University Chamber Orchestra

Commissioned work :
Commissioned by the Durham University Orchestral Society to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the group's founding

Technical Details

Product number:
LSL 10444

Performances

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  • Trackway of Time
    Summernightdreamers
    Conductor: Elias Grandy
    October 31, 2020 | Heidelberg (Germany) , Theater, Marguerre-Saal
  • Trackway of Time
    Summernightdreamers
    Conductor: Elias Grandy
    October 20, 2020 | Heidelberg (Germany) , Theater, Marguerre-Saal
  • Trackway of Time
    Summernightdreamers
    Conductor: Elias Grandy
    October 18, 2020 | Heidelberg (Germany) , Theater, Marguerre-Saal
  • Trackway of Time
    Summernightdreamers
    Conductor: Elias Grandy
    October 18, 2020 | Heidelberg (Germany) , Theater, Marguerre-Saal
  • Trackway of Time
    Summernightdreamers
    Conductor: Elias Grandy
    October 10, 2020 | Heidelberg (Germany) , Theater, Marguerre-Saal
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