Never the Twain Shall Meet

Christien Ledroit

General Info

Year: 2007
Duration: c. 12:50
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: CMC
Cost: Score and Parts - $0.00   |   Score Only - $0.00
Score Sample: http://www.musiccentre.ca/sites/www.musiccentre.ca/files/pdf/promo_scores/69279.zip

Instrumentation

Vibraphone
Multiple Percussion - Tabla
Flute

Program Notes

Never the Twain Shall Meet takes its title from Rudyard Kipling’s “The Ballad of East and West”. The phrase is usually used to indicate distance or incompatibility between two people, objects, cultures, beliefs, etc. however the full stanza reveals a different picture than this commonly-held perception: “Oh, East is East and West is West, and never the twain shall meet/Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God’s great judgement seat/But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth/When two strong me stand face to face, though they come from the ends of the earth!”

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Works for Percussion by this Composer

(Un)Natural (Dis)Integration - Percussion Duo, with Tape
Commuter Music - Multiple Percussion, Violin, Clarinet, Bass
Elementalities - Vibraphone, Tabla, Flute
Lush - flute/alto flute, Bb clarinet/bass clarinet, marimba, bass and percussion
Never the Twain Shall Meet - violin, tabla and electronics
Night Chill - Marimba, Electronics
Trade Winds - Concerto for Tabla (orch) - Tabla, Orchestra
Trade Winds - Concerto for Tabla (with Tape) - Tabla, with Tape