Description

Dan’s Story is in one extended movement but in several defined sections which explore a wealth of colours and textures available to the modern …bassist. The piece makes a feature of long melodies played in harmonics, ending with a section employing double stops and false harmonics in the lower positions. Dan’s Story is lyrical and melodic, in a contemporary framework and idiom, with opportunities to demonstrate the colourful and inventive prowess of this unique composer. Dan’s Story is dedicated to Dan Styffe and was premiered on Thursday 6 June 2019 at Indiana University, Bloomington, USA. Dan Styffe describes the piece as “quite typical of Teppo’s music, but perhaps a little less jazzy in tonality and expression than some of his other pieces. Melodic and singing phrases contrast harmonic lines and pizzicato passages.”