Cat No. JM105382
Price £5.50
Composer: Michael Bennett
Categories: SOLOS - ANY B♭. Inst., NEW & RECENT Publications, Michael Bennett Collection

Written for unaccompanied Bb. Trumpet.

Elegy for McCrae

Elegy for McCrae was composed and dedicated to fellow Aberdonian, cellist and composer Kevin McCrae whose sudden and tragic death in April 2005 stunned the musical community of Scotland.

 The piece for unaccompanied solo trumpet takes the form of a Scottish lament in which the interval of a diminished twelve permeates. There is also in the lower register a repeated figure similar to that of a leitmotif and echoes are also a feature of the piece.

After the initial lament there is an agitato section where the original theme is developed technically with cascading semiquavers and octave leaps. There is then a recapitulation of the original lament followed by a short Adagio which quotes in the minor “The Northern Lights of Old Aberdeen”.

As Michael Tumelty wrote in “The ( Glasgow) Herald” “Kevin was a Musician in a million. He was a joker, a great companion  and a master of his art”.

In memory of a “fine loon”.

Michael J. Bennett.