related works
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir
Scoring:
GK8
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Vocal ensemble (2-12) and large ensemble
Scoring:
alt ten female voices (2sopr alt) 2fl(pic) ob eh(ob) cl fg cfg 2h 2trp 2trb perc cel(harm) hp 2vl vla vc cb
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Vocal ensemble (2-12) and large ensemble
Scoring:
4female voices 111(sax)1 1111 drums pf 6vl 2vla vc cb
St. Louis Blues - Suite : 1995/1999 / libretto by Paul Binnerts, Chiel Meijering
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Vocal ensemble (2-12) and large ensemble
Scoring:
sopr ten 2010 2sax 1121 perc el.g g-b pf
composition
22 pages : for wind orchestra, double basses, percussion, harp, piano, celesta, vibraphone, xylophone, and 3 male voices, 1964/'65 / based on a text by John Cage, Joep Straesser
Other authors:
Cage, John
(Text writer/Librettist)
Straesser, Joep
(Composer)
Description:
Program note (English): This work was composed as a result of the text by John Cage ("2 pages, 122 words on music and dance") from the collection "Silence". This text is mainly spoken and fits completely into the structure of the work and for this reason it was not treated solistically. The meaning of the words is often the motive of similar musical structures - e.g. the words "points in time in space" bring about a music, which is characterized by short, cluster-like harmonies (points), which are separated by all sorts of different durations (space) - while the direct understanding is only of secondary importance.
The work begins with an introduction (title-music) preceded and followed by a number of strokes on a high gong. The first substantial part thereafter leads to a climax, which ends with an enumeration of several human emotions. The same gong plays the introduction to the second part, which is led to a climax again but within a shorter space of time and with only a little text. Three cymbals bring a coda at which end the three vocalists address the audience with the word "ears?" - JOEP STRAESSER