Under the Rug
Orchestra/5'/Difficulty - Medium/2004
for orchestra
also available for chamber orchestra
Please note: Scores are purchased, fulfilled in hard copy, and yours to keep. Parts are licensed (“rented”) per performance, and delivered in PDF form. The parts PDF does not include a score.
Full Score (11x17 paper)
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$50.00
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First Performance (parts)
Price:
$300.00
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Performance Date*:
Additional Performance
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$150.00
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Performance Date*:
"Under the Rug" is inspired by the picture-perfect world of 1950s suburbia - or, at least, how that world was portrayed on television. Imagine, if you will, a 1950s housewife, dressed in pearls, vacuuming her seemingly immaculate house. Her pas-de-deux with her beloved vacuum is interrupted by the appearance of a little dust bunny, stirred up by her movement. She chases it with the vacuum, but it blows away, always just ahead. Her pursuit becomes more and more urgent until she hurtles into madness. And just when, at last, she captures her quarry, many more appear, a legion of dust bunnies, stirred up by her frenzy. The more obsessed she becomes in her efforts to stamp out imperfection, the more she summons the chaos that will overtake her.
And you can dance to it!
Premiered
June 22, 2004
Park Avenue Chamber Symphony
Commissioned by
Park Avenue Chamber Orchestra
funded by Roy G. Niederhoffer
for Concert Artists Guild