QUASI UNA STORIA 2013 March 17 to May 17 . I could see the 13
strings on my stage – double bass and two celli on the extreme right.
Choirs,sections, colours, soli and tutti, too. ” Storify ” its bits and
pieces; is that introduction just right ? A violin solo ?
2012 was CELLO CONCERTO year – mighty 4 movements – the Slow Movement
has my new singing; the third mov., a Scherzo may be the most brutal I´ve ever
attempted , achieved – great horn interjections in unisoni or only two-voiced
bucina-terror with the percussion. My rhythmic pattern of 5,4,3,4,5
beats in the bar is assymetrically right to control, mesh this violence.
Great cello – up to its dizziest heights
Of course the birth in sound of the Violin Concerto ( of 2011 ) and
the International IFCM First Prize for the choral EIGHT HAIKUS
triggered good internal monologue for the future. What future ? That Manila ( October 5 2013 ) Premiere will lift me and them . FIVE TENORLIEDER still waits. performance – lovely
tessitura and use of my ownb good texts.
Same for 4 PIECES FOR 2 CLARINETS …. courageously thought, shaped.
Same for RHAPSODIC BOWING ; swooning 8 Celli.
You got to be tough to keep going, keep imagining in the vast
loneliness.