Five Bridges is one of the most ambitious works in the history of progressivism, and without a doubt one of the best works of The Nice.
A monumental work divided into 5 parts that plays with the symbolic idea of the musical bridge in various ways.
The composition is part of a commission for the Newcastle Arts Festival in 1969 and it demonstrates Keith Emerson's extensive theoretical knowledge of composition, harmonization and orchestration.
Lee Jackson's texts refer to his memoirs and memories about his native Newcastle where there were five bridges that spanned the River Tyne.
The structural treatment of this work is complex in developments, an idea that Emerson would later translate into EL&P.
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