Freaky Dancer

For Vibraphone and Guitar Quartet

2003

7 Minutes

Freaky DancerJoe Duddell

00:00 / 06:29

COMMISSIONED BY | Los Angeles Guitar Quartet

PROGRAMME NOTE | A colleague once said that every composer who has a child writes a piece about toys at some stage so I'm only too glad to support his theory. Freaky Dancer is about an imaginary toy that behaves normally when on but then perhaps has a life of its own once it is switched off or closed. So in the opening of the piece (tempo I) the players imitate a music box ballerina, which then in tempo II starts to have a bit of fun. The piece alternates between these two tempi throughout as if one is tempted to lift the box just to check nothing untoward is occurring. Maybe it is...

KEY PERFORMANCES |

World Premiere

21.2.2004

Venue | Freud Playhouse, UCLA, Los Angeles, USA