| Pastiches An Entertainment in the Form of Six Poetical and Musical Parodies for Narrator and Two Guitars |
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| Date of composition | 1949/1950, 1988, 1994 |
| Opus number | 4d |
| Type of work | Concert music |
| Duration | 15 mins |
| Musical forces | Narrator and Two Guitars |
| Words | David Munro |
| Publisher | Edizioni Bèrben |
| Notes | Arrangement for two guitars republished by Edizioni Bèrben in 1994 with the texts of the poems and the original Production Note, allowing the guitarists to perform the work with a narrator for a more unusual concert item; movements are: 1. Mouvement Perpétuel (Francis Poulenc/Lewis Carroll); 2. Tango (Darius Milhaud/Edith Sitwell); 3. Berceuse (Gabriel Fauré/William Shakespeare); 4. Mazurka (Dmitri Shostakovich/T. S. Eliot); 5. Negro Song (Antonín Dvořák/Rudyard Kipling); 6. Carioca! (Heitor Villa-Lobos/Gertrude Stein) |
…and very skilful parodies they are. As a piece of entertainment, this work is superb and indicative of great craftsmanship on the part of both composer and poet.
—The Croydon Advertiser, 28th October 1965