From Rugby League to Marriage Intrigue
Sproston, Darren
Sproston, Darren
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Tracing Roberto Gerhard's Creative Process from This Sporting Life to Epithalamion
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This paper traces the creative evolution of Roberto Gerhard's Epithalamion from its genesis as a film score in 1962 through to its final version, c. 1968 which makes it one of the last orchestral compositions on which Gerhard would have worked. It sits alongside two works left incomplete in 1968 Metamorphoses (the reworking of the Second Symphony) and the Fifth Symphony. It explores its origins through the film score of This Sporting Life and how this music is incorporated into the concert work and investigates the revisions made by Gerhard and end with exploring the final published version of the work.
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Sproston, D. (2021, July). From rugby league to marriage intrigue: Tracing Roberto Gerhard's creative process from This Sporting Life to Epithalamion. Paper presented at the Roberto Gerhard conference, 2-3 July 2021. University of Huddersfield, United Kingdom.
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Video paper given at the Roberto Gerhard (1896-1970): Re-appraising a Musical Visionary, University of Huddersfield.