I Hit A Breakfront Forking Funk
2010
Horn and Piano
Anthony Gustav Morris
7 minutes
Status: Score and parts available
This piece was commissioned by Prof. Frank Lloyd for his performance recital at the 2010 Brisbane located International Horn Society Congress.
In two contrasting sections, the Horn literally kicks off the piece with an impressive event. There follows a reflective and almost melancholy section that is trumped by a more virtuoso rondo-like display suitable for the excellent characteristics of Prof. Lloyd.
The title is an anagram that describes the inspiration behind the piece and is also a choice of wording pertinent to the theme.
About the anagram: a dictionary is useful. Certain personalities, I find, look at things and presume. This title is an anagram of carefully chosen (and harmless words). No doubt, some people will look and immediately presume that rude words are the foundation for deriving this particular set. I like this because it is an indication of how some people just look and presume, pushing their own view of how the world “must” be onto situations. Those who presume in this way will never solve the anagram, not for a long time at least. Those with a more open mind who see good things they way they are meant, will stand a better chance, (if they want to spend their time doing so). I suppose it is something to do for those who don’t particularly like horn recitals. A value-added aspect to the piece.
Art derives a considerable part of its beneficial exercise from flying in the face of presumptions.
-James, Henry
'The Art of Fiction', collected in Partial Portraits (1988).