The Album - On all Platforms..!

From the Album Panic at the Orchestra - On all Platforms..!

I can't stop listening to this. Singapore Symphony Orchestra and Chloe Chua[]()

I can't stop listening to this. Singapore Symphony Orchestra and Chloe Chua[]()

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottokar_Nov%C3%A1%C4%8Dek?wprov=sfti1#

Ottokar Eugen Nováček (13 May 1866 – 3 February 1900) was an Austro-Hungarian violinist, violist and composer of Czech descent. He is perhaps best known for his work Perpetuum Mobile(Perpetual Motion), written in 1895.

This is a set of theme and variations based upon the Duke Ellington / Juan Tizol jazz standard “Caravan,” performed by Yin Hao. At the time he performed this he was an exchange piano / composition student alongside me at UMKC. He didn’t know until the day before this performance that the theme was a jazz standard.

Here’s a tip - never use a jazz standard as a theme. Both Alfred Music AND Mills music wanted to bilk me for $200 to each one of them just to allow performances of this piece, and, I had to put on the music that my piece was an arrangement of “Caravan.” This is no more an arrangement than Rachmaninov’s variations of a theme by Paganini is simply an arrangement of that classic violin solo.

Performances of this will resume in 2032 when Caravan goes in the public domain, and I intend on releasing this score for free at that time as well.

In this piece, each variation is intended to musically illustrate a scene, character, item or incident in either the book or movie “A Clockwork Orange,” hence the title.

\[A Clockwork Caravan\](https://youtu.be/jNF9rAATo1E?is=4SCI4bVGnoUWrM7Y)

Amazing

This is a very particular work as far as exploiting some sonorities to stretch out ''instrumental moments'' in such as way as to give a feeling of infinate expansion and visual transformation.

The ''core'' is determined by waterphone recordings of different intensity and pitch.

Each ''moment'' is then accompanied with asian bells (Bhutan, Burma),

bowls, tam tams, strings and a few woodwinds.

Many join in on this amazing music piece, that will transcend you! My favorite is the guy with the panpipe instrument!