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			=== Reviews ===
			...there was much to admire about Holt half-hour concerto...
			Nick Shave, BBC Music Magazine,7/29/2010
			...a table of noise is beyond criticism.
			www.classicalsource.com,7/27/2010
			The subtlety and variety of Holt's musical material - much of the piece is quiet, though reguarly uneasy and occasionally manic - held the attention easily over its 30-minute span.
			George Hall, Guardian,7/27/2010
			...fascinating work...
			Michael Church, The Independant,7/27/2010
			Holt has a marvellous talent for registering those flickering emotions of night-time, when the mind fabricates spirits in the shadows.
			Ivan Hewett, The Telegragh,7/27/2010
			‘Very intimate, very tender, very moving’...‘Simon [Holt] took the idea of the percussion concerto and stood it on its head. He’s approached it with the idea that small is beautiful. There are moments of intense virtuosity, but most of the time my job is more to take care of the balance and texture, as if being part of a chamber ensemble. It’s a very well-rounded and beautiful piece of music.’
			Colin Currie, The Proms Guide,7/26/2010
			Holt’s 28-minute percussion concerto, entitled, in his characteristic lower case, “a table of noises”, was written for the impressive Colin Currie, who premiered it with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra under Martyn Brabbins at Symphony Hall. It is an unusual work, not least in being systematically autobiographical. The title refers both to the table on which Holt’s Lancastrian great-uncle, Ashworth Hutton, a taxidermist with limited mobility, spread out the equipment of his trade, and to the Peruvian mesa de ruidos, a box with guitar strings, better known as a cajon, used in the flamenco music of southern Spain, where Holt lives. He wanted to avoid the reckless flamboyance of many a percussion concerto and decided that the soloist’s instruments should be few enough (glockenspiel, whistle, block, bongo, klaxon, cowbell) to fit on a table, though he also has a xylophone and sits on his cajon. The restraint pays off. One can follow the solo line, unpitched though it mostly is, more clearly than often in such pieces. In other ways, the music is unbridled, favouring the sonic extremes of piccolo and contrabassoon, and dispensing with the normative presence of violins and violas. The arresting opening is a raucous duo for the percussionist and a pair of spiky piccolos, and the 10th of the 11 brief movements is a bass-clarinet solo, one of five interludes called “ghosts”. This overlaps with movement nine, “table top”, a cadenza where the soloist chooses freely among his instruments. The titles of the main movements all relate to Uncle Ash: the first movement is “jute”, the stuffing for the animal skins; the third “fly”, the name of his dog, “who used to fall asleep standing while staring into the fire”. Here, the soloist plays an elaborate, “spectral” xylophone part, gently backed by two orchestral xylophones, and the striking combination is used again, more equitably, in the frenetic “skennin’ Mary”, about a neigh-bour whose glass eye was wont to spin when she was angry. Uncle Ash’s supply of such appurtenances for animals provides the lurid title of “a drawer full of eyes”, a brittle scherzo. Uncles, eccentric or otherwise, make good subjects for artists, for they can be observed in close-up, like parents, but without the blur of Oedipal tensions. Holt has produced one of his most likeable and subtly coloured scores.
			Paul Driver, The Sunday Times,5/25/2008
			Even by Simon Holt's idiosyncratic standards, the inspiration for his new percussion concerto, A Table of Noises, given its outstanding premiere by Colin Currie with Martyn Brabbins conducting the City of Birmingham Symphony, is an unexpected one. Holt's great uncle Ashworth was a taxidermist who, because he had severe disabilities, worked at a table with all the tools of his trade close at hand. Memories of this uncle, who sounds like a character from a Lancastrian version of Last of the Summer Wine, gave Holt the idea of confining the percussion instruments for his new concerto to those that could fit on a table, and provided him with his movement titles. The work itself gets its name from one of the instruments included, the Peruvian cajón, a box with guitar strings whose other name translates as "a table of noises". There are six movements, all vividly characterised, and separated by sparely scored interludes called "ghosts", though the fifth of them overlaps with the fifth movement proper, a solo cadenza, in which the precise selection of instruments is left to the soloist. It is a concerto full of vivid, prickly textures, drawn from an orchestra without violins in which extremes predominate, and with a pair of antiphonal piccolos often giving the sound a brittle sheen. Much of the solo writing is a model of restraint. The technical demands are high, yet there is none of the wham-bam virtuosity that disfigures most percussion concertos. What one takes away from the work is a delicacy, in the sense of the sounds all being drawn from that fund of memories; it ends quietly, nostalgically, the final tempo marked "as slow as trees".
			Andrew Clements, The Guardian,5/19/2008
			Recalling scenes from the life of the composer's one-legged taxidermist great-uncle, Simon Holt's A Table of Noises is an important addition to the small repertoire of percussion concertos. A co-commission from the CBSO and the Borletti-Buitoni Trust for the award-winning young percussionist Colin Currie, it is structured in six main episodes, quirkily titled, separated by five short, subdued interludes each scored for a different combination of instruments from within a generally low-timbred orchestra. An exception from this tessitura is the use of a pair of shrieking piccolos, ranged high up on either side of the orchestra, and spectacular in effect. The solo part is virtuosic, but never flashily so, commentating upon and shading each memory of this anecdotal character, and eventually moving to a cadenza where, though the rhythms are notated, the choice of instruments is left to the soloist. Its premiere from Currie was fluent and assured, the complexities memorised and encompassed with impressive confidence. And under Martyn Brabbins the CBSO reminded us once again just how adept it is in mastering new scores...
			Christopher Morley, Birmingham Post,5/16/2008<ref>http://www.musicsalesclassical.com/composer/work/36146</ref>
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	'''Publisher''': [[~~Universal~~]]<br /-->		'''Publisher''': [[Chester]]<br /-->
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	...there was much to admire about Holt half-hour concerto...		...there was much to admire about Holt half-hour concerto...
	Nick Shave, BBC Music Magazine,7/29/2010		Nick Shave, BBC Music Magazine,7/29/2010


	...a table of noise is beyond criticism.		...a table of noise is beyond criticism.
	www.classicalsource.com,7/27/2010		www.classicalsource.com,7/27/2010


	The subtlety and variety of Holt's musical material - much of the piece is quiet, though reguarly uneasy and occasionally manic - held the attention easily over its 30-minute span.		The subtlety and variety of Holt's musical material - much of the piece is quiet, though reguarly uneasy and occasionally manic - held the attention easily over its 30-minute span.
	George Hall, Guardian,7/27/2010		George Hall, Guardian,7/27/2010


	...fascinating work...		...fascinating work...
	Michael Church, The Independant,7/27/2010		Michael Church, The Independant,7/27/2010


	Holt has a marvellous talent for registering those flickering emotions of night-time, when the mind fabricates spirits in the shadows.		Holt has a marvellous talent for registering those flickering emotions of night-time, when the mind fabricates spirits in the shadows.
	Ivan Hewett, The Telegragh,7/27/2010		Ivan Hewett, The Telegragh,7/27/2010


	‘Very intimate, very tender, very moving’...‘Simon [Holt] took the idea of the percussion concerto and stood it on its head. He’s approached it with the idea that small is beautiful. There are moments of intense virtuosity, but most of the time my job is more to take care of the balance and texture, as if being part of a chamber ensemble. It’s a very well-rounded and beautiful piece of music.’		‘Very intimate, very tender, very moving’...‘Simon [Holt] took the idea of the percussion concerto and stood it on its head. He’s approached it with the idea that small is beautiful. There are moments of intense virtuosity, but most of the time my job is more to take care of the balance and texture, as if being part of a chamber ensemble. It’s a very well-rounded and beautiful piece of music.’
	Colin Currie, The Proms Guide,7/26/2010		Colin Currie, The Proms Guide,7/26/2010


	Holt’s 28-minute percussion concerto, entitled, in his characteristic lower case, “a table of noises”, was written for the impressive Colin Currie, who premiered it with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra under Martyn Brabbins at Symphony Hall. It is an unusual work, not least in being systematically autobiographical. The title refers both to the table on which Holt’s Lancastrian great-uncle, Ashworth Hutton, a taxidermist with limited mobility, spread out the equipment of his trade, and to the Peruvian mesa de ruidos, a box with guitar strings, better known as a cajon, used in the flamenco music of southern Spain, where Holt lives. He wanted to avoid the reckless flamboyance of many a percussion concerto and decided that the soloist’s instruments should be few enough (glockenspiel, whistle, block, bongo, klaxon, cowbell) to fit on a table, though he also has a xylophone and sits on his cajon. The restraint pays off. One can follow the solo line, unpitched though it mostly is, more clearly than often in such pieces. In other ways, the music is unbridled, favouring the sonic extremes of piccolo and contrabassoon, and dispensing with the normative presence of violins and violas. The arresting opening is a raucous duo for the percussionist and a pair of spiky piccolos, and the 10th of the 11 brief movements is a bass-clarinet solo, one of five interludes called “ghosts”. This overlaps with movement nine, “table top”, a cadenza where the soloist chooses freely among his instruments. The titles of the main movements all relate to Uncle Ash: the first movement is “jute”, the stuffing for the animal skins; the third “fly”, the name of his dog, “who used to fall asleep standing while staring into the fire”. Here, the soloist plays an elaborate, “spectral” xylophone part, gently backed by two orchestral xylophones, and the striking combination is used again, more equitably, in the frenetic “skennin’ Mary”, about a neigh-bour whose glass eye was wont to spin when she was angry. Uncle Ash’s supply of such appurtenances for animals provides the lurid title of “a drawer full of eyes”, a brittle scherzo. Uncles, eccentric or otherwise, make good subjects for artists, for they can be observed in close-up, like parents, but without the blur of Oedipal tensions. Holt has produced one of his most likeable and subtly coloured scores.		Holt’s 28-minute percussion concerto, entitled, in his characteristic lower case, “a table of noises”, was written for the impressive Colin Currie, who premiered it with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra under Martyn Brabbins at Symphony Hall. It is an unusual work, not least in being systematically autobiographical. The title refers both to the table on which Holt’s Lancastrian great-uncle, Ashworth Hutton, a taxidermist with limited mobility, spread out the equipment of his trade, and to the Peruvian mesa de ruidos, a box with guitar strings, better known as a cajon, used in the flamenco music of southern Spain, where Holt lives. He wanted to avoid the reckless flamboyance of many a percussion concerto and decided that the soloist’s instruments should be few enough (glockenspiel, whistle, block, bongo, klaxon, cowbell) to fit on a table, though he also has a xylophone and sits on his cajon. The restraint pays off. One can follow the solo line, unpitched though it mostly is, more clearly than often in such pieces. In other ways, the music is unbridled, favouring the sonic extremes of piccolo and contrabassoon, and dispensing with the normative presence of violins and violas. The arresting opening is a raucous duo for the percussionist and a pair of spiky piccolos, and the 10th of the 11 brief movements is a bass-clarinet solo, one of five interludes called “ghosts”. This overlaps with movement nine, “table top”, a cadenza where the soloist chooses freely among his instruments. The titles of the main movements all relate to Uncle Ash: the first movement is “jute”, the stuffing for the animal skins; the third “fly”, the name of his dog, “who used to fall asleep standing while staring into the fire”. Here, the soloist plays an elaborate, “spectral” xylophone part, gently backed by two orchestral xylophones, and the striking combination is used again, more equitably, in the frenetic “skennin’ Mary”, about a neigh-bour whose glass eye was wont to spin when she was angry. Uncle Ash’s supply of such appurtenances for animals provides the lurid title of “a drawer full of eyes”, a brittle scherzo. Uncles, eccentric or otherwise, make good subjects for artists, for they can be observed in close-up, like parents, but without the blur of Oedipal tensions. Holt has produced one of his most likeable and subtly coloured scores.
	Paul Driver, The Sunday Times,5/25/2008		Paul Driver, The Sunday Times,5/25/2008


	Even by Simon Holt's idiosyncratic standards, the inspiration for his new percussion concerto, A Table of Noises, given its outstanding premiere by Colin Currie with Martyn Brabbins conducting the City of Birmingham Symphony, is an unexpected one. Holt's great uncle Ashworth was a taxidermist who, because he had severe disabilities, worked at a table with all the tools of his trade close at hand. Memories of this uncle, who sounds like a character from a Lancastrian version of Last of the Summer Wine, gave Holt the idea of confining the percussion instruments for his new concerto to those that could fit on a table, and provided him with his movement titles. The work itself gets its name from one of the instruments included, the Peruvian cajón, a box with guitar strings whose other name translates as "a table of noises". There are six movements, all vividly characterised, and separated by sparely scored interludes called "ghosts", though the fifth of them overlaps with the fifth movement proper, a solo cadenza, in which the precise selection of instruments is left to the soloist. It is a concerto full of vivid, prickly textures, drawn from an orchestra without violins in which extremes predominate, and with a pair of antiphonal piccolos often giving the sound a brittle sheen. Much of the solo writing is a model of restraint. The technical demands are high, yet there is none of the wham-bam virtuosity that disfigures most percussion concertos. What one takes away from the work is a delicacy, in the sense of the sounds all being drawn from that fund of memories; it ends quietly, nostalgically, the final tempo marked "as slow as trees".		Even by Simon Holt's idiosyncratic standards, the inspiration for his new percussion concerto, A Table of Noises, given its outstanding premiere by Colin Currie with Martyn Brabbins conducting the City of Birmingham Symphony, is an unexpected one. Holt's great uncle Ashworth was a taxidermist who, because he had severe disabilities, worked at a table with all the tools of his trade close at hand. Memories of this uncle, who sounds like a character from a Lancastrian version of Last of the Summer Wine, gave Holt the idea of confining the percussion instruments for his new concerto to those that could fit on a table, and provided him with his movement titles. The work itself gets its name from one of the instruments included, the Peruvian cajón, a box with guitar strings whose other name translates as "a table of noises". There are six movements, all vividly characterised, and separated by sparely scored interludes called "ghosts", though the fifth of them overlaps with the fifth movement proper, a solo cadenza, in which the precise selection of instruments is left to the soloist. It is a concerto full of vivid, prickly textures, drawn from an orchestra without violins in which extremes predominate, and with a pair of antiphonal piccolos often giving the sound a brittle sheen. Much of the solo writing is a model of restraint. The technical demands are high, yet there is none of the wham-bam virtuosity that disfigures most percussion concertos. What one takes away from the work is a delicacy, in the sense of the sounds all being drawn from that fund of memories; it ends quietly, nostalgically, the final tempo marked "as slow as trees".
	Andrew Clements, The Guardian,5/19/2008		Andrew Clements, The Guardian,5/19/2008


	Recalling scenes from the life of the composer's one-legged taxidermist great-uncle, Simon Holt's A Table of Noises is an important addition to the small repertoire of percussion concertos. A co-commission from the CBSO and the Borletti-Buitoni Trust for the award-winning young percussionist Colin Currie, it is structured in six main episodes, quirkily titled, separated by five short, subdued interludes each scored for a different combination of instruments from within a generally low-timbred orchestra. An exception from this tessitura is the use of a pair of shrieking piccolos, ranged high up on either side of the orchestra, and spectacular in effect. The solo part is virtuosic, but never flashily so, commentating upon and shading each memory of this anecdotal character, and eventually moving to a cadenza where, though the rhythms are notated, the choice of instruments is left to the soloist. Its premiere from Currie was fluent and assured, the complexities memorised and encompassed with impressive confidence. And under Martyn Brabbins the CBSO reminded us once again just how adept it is in mastering new scores...		Recalling scenes from the life of the composer's one-legged taxidermist great-uncle, Simon Holt's A Table of Noises is an important addition to the small repertoire of percussion concertos. A co-commission from the CBSO and the Borletti-Buitoni Trust for the award-winning young percussionist Colin Currie, it is structured in six main episodes, quirkily titled, separated by five short, subdued interludes each scored for a different combination of instruments from within a generally low-timbred orchestra. An exception from this tessitura is the use of a pair of shrieking piccolos, ranged high up on either side of the orchestra, and spectacular in effect. The solo part is virtuosic, but never flashily so, commentating upon and shading each memory of this anecdotal character, and eventually moving to a cadenza where, though the rhythms are notated, the choice of instruments is left to the soloist. Its premiere from Currie was fluent and assured, the complexities memorised and encompassed with impressive confidence. And under Martyn Brabbins the CBSO reminded us once again just how adept it is in mastering new scores...
	Christopher Morley, Birmingham Post,5/16/2008<ref>http://www.musicsalesclassical.com/composer/work/36146</ref>		Christopher Morley, Birmingham Post,5/16/2008<ref>http://www.musicsalesclassical.com/composer/work/36146</ref>

	== Errata ==		== Errata ==