Description

A contemporary work about the Hiroshima bomb. The title is the date and time of the explosion. The first half of the piece is utterly innocent, a busy early morning street scene building up. But the plane is heard overhead, and after that it’s pandemonium, musical Chaos. Not without form though, and I hope that the recurring sequence, on which layers of panic and destruction are mounted, serves to enable the listener to bear it. It’s devastating music, as it should be.

There are now two other versions of this work, for Orchestral Brass and Percussion (4.3.3.1.T+P.2P) and for a few extra and very helpful players, the Extended Orchestral Brass and Percussion Version (5.4.3.Euph.1.T+P.2P).