Length / Year
5' / 1997

Instrumentation
Two pianos (or keyboards) and two marimbas

Programme Note
This is an arrangement for two pianos and two percussionists of the first of three short pieces for clarinet and piano commissioned by the clarinetist Peryn Clement-Evans with funds made available by the Arts Council of Wales. It was first performed at the Wrexham Festival in May 1997.

Pull up if I pull up as the title suggests is, like my six piano piece Never Odd or Even , a palindrome (something which is the same backwards as it is forwards). Indeed it shares with Never Odd or Even the same harmonic structure. The keyboard parts have three series of chords each of which is palindromic. The harmony moves to a central point then is exactly reversed. The tuned percussion parts meanwhile each have a single span. They are also reversed exactly from the middle but, in this instance, only the the rhythm is treated palindromically, the choice of notes being free. This strict procedure is applied to material which is essentially playful and light.

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