TALLAHATCHIE CONCERTO

The Tallahatchie Concerto was commissioned in 2001 by the Dutch broadcasting company NCRV and is dedicated to Arno Bornkamp, who has performed the work many times across Europe. The premiere and simultaneous radio broadcast was on March 3 2002, at Vredenburg, Utrecht with the Radio Kamerorkest conducted by Thierry Fischer.
Tallahatchie Concerto is the first piece that I wrote after the oratorio Paradiso, my ‘magnum opus’ so far. This is the reason why ‘pink shadows of heavenly orange clouds’ hang over the slow movement. It is in fact a stretched out crescendo-accelerando, in which the saxophone gradually leads us from celestial atmospheres into terrestrial ones. The word ‘tallahatchie’ occurred to me spontaneously. It appears to be a Native American word, meaning ‘river of rocks’, which I believe is an apt metaphor for this concerto: the river representing time and melody, and the rocks representing rhythm. Other hornplayers like Branford Marsalis and Ties Mellema performed it several times.

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