The University of Manchester Rhapsody (Vladimir Terzija)

This spontaneously created "rhapsody" is devoted to all my previous undergraduate, postgraduate and PhD students, my Postdocs, Academic Visitors and friends from The University of Manchester.

(A rhapsody in music is a one-movement work that is episodic yet integrated, free-flowing in structure, featuring a range of highly contrasted moods, colour, and tonality. An air of spontaneous inspiration and a sense of improvisation make it freer in form than a set of variations.)

Indeed, I was very inspired to think about all of you, to try to describe through this rhapsody the experience of meeting you, working with you, knowing and discovering you and at the same time to discovering myslef. - such a fantastic journey! Once again, thank you so much!

(In Wilmslow, 27th September 2020; played on my Schimmel Grand Piano, SN 255.342)