Commentary
Way
Trough Ratabhachta IIb (2000/04)
trombone
solo, 15’30
"Ratabhachta" is
the name of a narrow lane in the Dublin district Finglas. In 1986 I used
the map of this part of the town to compose the variation cycle "Vergessen
an Archem (Hier) – I never walked the likely Finglas Ratabhachta".
Still,
I’ve
never been to Dublin. Nevertheles, since 1997 I began rewriting parts of
the first movement of those variations into solo pieces on demand of a number
of instrumentalists.
"Way Through Ratabhachta II" was encouraged by trombonist Patrick Crossland.
