Crash Suite
Year of Composition:
1996
Pieces:
- Opening Credits
- Camera Room
- First Crash
- Airport Garage
- Car Chase
- Pillow Talk
- The Hooker
- Vaughn Dies
- Hospital
- Junkyard Crash
- Cat & Mouse (pt. 2)
Instrumentation:
C fl (afl in G), ob, clar (bcl), 2perc, 3hp, 6egtr
perc 1: large bowed tam, bowed Waterphone, dark metal objects, small metal sculpture, tuned sus. gongs, cymbal, lg. metal jerry can w/mallets; perc 2: metal prepared piano w/mallets, dark metal objects, metal sculpture (w/rubber mallets), tuned sus. gongs, hand drums, various-sized cymbals w/metal brushes
Duration:
34:00
Original Soundtrack
Productions
World Premiere: January 3, 1998
National Arts Centre, Ottawa, ON, Canada
National Arts Centre Orchestra – Howard Shore, conductor
July 29, 1998
Storey Hall – Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Australia
Howard Shore, conductor
National Premiere: May 13, 2023
Maison de la Radio – Studio 104, Paris, France
Le Balcon – Mike Schäperclaus, conductor
Featured Performers: Lydia Kavina, theremin • Chœur de Radio France (Lionel Sow, choral conductor)
