Beyond the light - Liz Lane

Lane, Liz

Abstract

Commissioned for the RNCM Brass Band Festival and first performed by the Grimethorpe Colliery Band, 28 January 2023.

Beyond the Light is written as a tribute to Bramwell Tovey and a thank you for his continuing inspirational legacy. I worked with him in 2018 when he conducted the National Youth Brass Band of Great Britain in two performances of my Tide and Time at Wells Cathedral and Cheltenham Town Hall, following the premiere by Foden’s Band with Michael Fowles at the RNCM Brass Band Festival earlier that year.
Tide and Time was inspired by artists in my family and after a rehearsal Bram admired, and took a photo of, an illustration created for me by my Grandfather, G. H. Wooller, a commercial artist, with reflective words by my great-grandfather, H. Wooller, a painter and author, on music ‘beyond the physical and emotional’.
Tide and Time’s web presence has since led to further discoveries of family artwork, including a collection of designs by my grandfather for the ocean liner RMS Empress of Britain (1930) at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, bought from Sotheby’s in 1984, with a theme of light. One of these drawings is featured on the title pages of the score by kind permission of the V&A.
The music recalls a motif from Tide and Time, intertwined with two new melodic features emerging one from the other. Drawing the soundscape together is a setting of my great-grandfather’s words, admired in 2018 by Bramwell Tovey.

• Other Type: Composition
• Online Publication Date: May 23, 2023
• Publication Date: May 23, 2024
• Deposit Date: Apr 29, 2024
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/11930167