Retur

The melodic and harmonic structure of Retur (Return) is based on some transcribed phrases from s saxophone solo by the legendary American musician Charlie Parker. As one composition in a series of pieces concerned with my relation to music historical artefacts - Alias (1990) and Renaissance (1994) are two other examples from the same series – Retur is a kind of musical letter, written on the paper of time and actually addressed to the sender of the original creation (Parker). The piece was commissioned by the Institute for National Concerts (IRK) for the Stockholm Saxophone Quartet.