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Film Score for Maxwell's Demon, the first full-length feature film by David Clark, featuring a 13-piece jazz band and various chamber ensembles, was completed in July 1998. The soundtrack album, released by No Records with the film's premier at the Atlantic Film Festival, Halifax NS, in...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Toyne, Jeffrey William
Language:English
Published: 2009
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/9363
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Summary:Film Score for Maxwell's Demon, the first full-length feature film by David Clark, featuring a 13-piece jazz band and various chamber ensembles, was completed in July 1998. The soundtrack album, released by No Records with the film's premier at the Atlantic Film Festival, Halifax NS, in September 1998, has since been heard on CBC Radio and a music video for the title track was released in March, 1999. Little Boy Lost, revised for large orchestra, was selected for the 2nd Annual Jean Coulthard Reading for Young Composers, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, 1998 Songs of Innocence, for women's chorus a cappella, text by William Blake, winner of a Godfrey Ridout Award for Choral Composition, SOCAN Young Composer's Competition, 1998, has been read and selected for performance by Vancouver's Elektra Women's Choir in their upcoming season. Amazing Grace, arranged for Concert Band and Pipe Band, commissioned by the Band of the 15th Field Royal Canadian Artillery, Vancouver B.C., premiered March 19, 1999 at the International Band Concert, Olympia, WA Splendor Sine Occasu. the Official March of the 39th Brigade, British Columbia, commissioned by the Band of the 15th Field Royal Canadian Artillery, Vancouver B.C., premiered May 1, 1999. Maxwell's Demon Title Theme, for Intermediate Jazz Ensemble, commissioned by Mountain Secondary School, Langley B.C., premiered March 1999. Better Late Than Never, for Intermediate Jazz Ensemble, commissioned by Mountain Secondary School, Langley B.C., to be premiered June 1999.