Description
'Pierwsze dowodztwo' (The First Command)
would not have been possible without
Joseph Conrad's The Shadow Line. The text
of the literary work was the starting point and inspiration
to composer Adam Porebski to write the music. However, the composition is
not maintained in the style of film or illustrative
music. It is an almost fifty-minute
long suite divided into ten sections with a consistently
built narrative, constituting an independent
musical composition employing an
original combination of purely classical, film, and electroacoustic music.
The Suite was written for the Hashtag Ensemble following a commission by the Polish Society for Contemporary Music in 2017 as
part of the celebration of the year of Joseph Conrad.