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 right ? A violin solo ?
2012 was CELLO CONCERTO year – mighty 4 movements – the Slow Movement
has my new singing; the third Scherzo may be the most brutal I´ve ever
attempted – 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 just right to control this violence.
Great cello – up to dizziest heights
Of course the birth in sound of the Violin Concerto ( of 2011 ) and
the International IFCM Prize for the choral EIGHT HAIKUS ( of 2010 )
triggered good internal monologue for, I hope, the future. What future
? That Manila October 5 2013 premiere will lift me and them – lead to
other performances ? Incl. N.C.C. ?
FIVE TENORLIEDER still no prospects of a performance – lovely
tessitura and use of my own damn 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. The 2013 New York birth of VARIATIONS ON MYSELF did work –
but central tempi and a few wind aleatory places need more dynamics
fine-tuned… Good string-quintet versus wind-quintet. Also my 2011
JACOPONE
SONGS OF TERROR AND LOVE – 5 ” Pierrot” instruments against great (
Englishing plus original ) texts. ” Stabat Mater” suffused, really; goes
deep back to my sixties, or earlier.
Recent 7 CUBIST MINIATURES for Guitar, Viola and Flute ( September
2013 , eh? in Wales ? ) are perfect.
Small GRAND DUO ( Harp and Cello ), harp solo IN THE DEEP HEART´S CORE
( watch its Errata ) – a new spontaneity. Keep it up.