The Rose Garden
by Diane Berry
- Instrumentation
- Cello, Piano
- Composed
- 2022
- Duration
- 6'50''
- Publisher
- Canadian Music Centre (unpublished, printed by CMC), RSN 81440
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About this piece
Diane Berry, a British Columbia flutist, teacher and Associate Composer of the Canadian Music Centre, wrote The Rose Garden in 2022 as one of six pieces for a 'long-table' dinner at the House of Boateng in Langford, just outside Victoria, where chef Castro Boateng served a dish after each piece made with ingredients from the place it describes. Her note sets the scene on a hot August afternoon, on a bench hidden among rose beds, half dozing to the sound of bees. Cellist Nathan Jacklin and pianist Kathryn Le Gros gave the premiere in Victoria on 23 April 2023.
Technical overview
Mostly in C major at quarter = 98, in bass clef, with the metre shifting often between 3/4 and 4/4. The cello line stays around first position, reaching D above middle C, and mixes long tied notes with slurred triplets, quintuplet runs and grace-note turns, with dynamics from pp to f and frequent hairpins. The composer asks for a fairly free, relaxed performance.
Technical focus
- Accidentals
- Collaboration with Piano
- Dynamics
- Grace Notes
- Hairpin Dynamics
- Legato
- Meter Changes
- Rubato
- Triplets