HELL'S KITCHEN score & parts

"After having written several works with references to apparitions and the underworld (Ghost Theatre and Closet Full of Demons, for example), I realised that inspiration for a third work in this gruesome series exists right here in my own backyard: Hell’s Kitchen, my neighbourhood in New York City.
Several competing legends attempt to explain how Hell’s Kitchen acquired its gritty, colourful name, but there’s no dispute as to why. From the mid-1800s to the 1980s, it was known for its tenement buildings, streetwalkers and speakeasies, slaughterhouses, deeply violent gangs, gruesome murders, mysterious disappearances and even ghosts. Today, realtors and some non-natives call it Clinton or Midtown West, and it is known for its Off Broadway theatres, an abundance of chic restaurants, luxury condominium towers and even as the name of a reality TV cooking competition show. However, locals still steadfastly call it Hell’s Kitchen, and are proud that the neighbourhood has become a veritable culinary and cultural melting pot.
In Hell’s Kitchen, I use the imaginary sounds of a fast-paced restaurant kitchen in hell as a point of departure, complete with loud, grinding effects produced by musical instruments and the sounds of kitchen tools and appliances. The percussionist plays a central role, using a metal grater like a güiro (an effect suggested to me by my son Dylan while walking down 9th Avenue) and uses wooden spoons like drumsticks on pots and pans, while other players are called upon to use kitchen gadgets and appliances for percussive effect. The entire work is meant to give the feeling of being in the middle of a kitchen in hell." - Robert Paterson

Percussion Instrumentation: vibraphone, crotales (high and low octaves), orchestra bells, concert bass drum, kick bass drum, 4 tom toms, large tam tam, medium suspended cymbal, medium sizzle cymbal, large china cymbal, 2 one-handed slapsticks, kitchen sink basin, metal kitchen grater, 5 graduated cast-iron frying pans, 3 stainless steel mixing bowls, 3 Pyrex storage round dish glass bowls, 2 wooden serving spoons, 2 balloon-shaped metal wire whisks, misc. mallets, bows and beaters. See score for kitchen appliance and instrument specifications.

Commissioned by The Utah Arts Festival as the result of winning the 2014 Utah Arts Festival Chamber Ensemble Composer Commission Competition.

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