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- Rob Kapilow
Paddywak: A Tap Dance Concerto (2007)
- G Schirmer Inc (World)
- 2(pic).2.2.2./4.2.2.0./timp.perc/pf/str
- Tapdancer; fl(pic), 2cl, bn, hn, tpt, pf, 2vn, va, vc, db
- Tap dancer
- 15 min
Programme Note
Composer Note:
Creating a solo part for a tap dancer rather than a violinist or a pianist has involved a more extensive and different kind of collaboration than I had ever imagined. Discovering the extraordinary variety of ways a tap dancer can combine with instrumentalists rhythmically, texturally, motivically, and even narratively has been a fascinating process. Discovering what my music and Ayodele's tapping can say together that [each] could not say on [its] own has given me wonderful new insights into the fundamental meaning of what 'concerto' — to act 'in concert' — is all about.
— Robert Kapilow
Orchestra Premiere:
6 February 2010
Ayodele Casel, dancer
Toronto Symphony Orchestra
Robert Kapilow, conductor
Toronto, ON, Canada
Chamber Premiere:
3 February 2007
Ayodele Casel, dancer
Family Music Chamber Ensemble
Robert Kapilow, conductor
Lincoln Center, New York, NY
Creating a solo part for a tap dancer rather than a violinist or a pianist has involved a more extensive and different kind of collaboration than I had ever imagined. Discovering the extraordinary variety of ways a tap dancer can combine with instrumentalists rhythmically, texturally, motivically, and even narratively has been a fascinating process. Discovering what my music and Ayodele's tapping can say together that [each] could not say on [its] own has given me wonderful new insights into the fundamental meaning of what 'concerto' — to act 'in concert' — is all about.
— Robert Kapilow
Orchestra Premiere:
6 February 2010
Ayodele Casel, dancer
Toronto Symphony Orchestra
Robert Kapilow, conductor
Toronto, ON, Canada
Chamber Premiere:
3 February 2007
Ayodele Casel, dancer
Family Music Chamber Ensemble
Robert Kapilow, conductor
Lincoln Center, New York, NY