Vivier, Claude: Orion (1979) 13'
for large orchestra
Scoring
3(III=picc).2.corA.2.Ebcl.3-4.2.2.1-perc(3):t.bells/vib/mar/crot/BD; 4rin gong/nipple gong/4nipple gongs(sm)/3tam-t(lo,med,hi)/Chin.gong/2metal plates/wdbl; t.bells/vib/mar/crot/BD-harp-strings
One of the percussionists has to sing into the tam-tam.
World Premiere
10/14/1980
Salle Wilfrid Pelletier, Montréal
Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal / Charles Dutoit
Composer's Notes Français
A melody on the trumpet, again the trumpet, as in Kopernikus, instrument of death in the Middle Ages (see the film by Bergman and read l'Office des morts)
Inevetably, this melody is cast upon itself without being able (wanting) to smash the wall of solitude.
Blissful destruction-the euphoria of egocentric despair. Beauty, pure Beauty, sad Beauty, cosmetic beauty, lacquered or wild beauty, monstrous and sexual.
Stop!
I begin again.
Orion is the name of a constellation; I have always turned it upside down-have always looked toward the east-stop! too personal. I was just about to speak of my mother.
Third start.
Orion consists of six sections: statement of the melody, first development of the melody unravelling on itself, second development of the melody unravelling on itself, meditation on the melody, remembrance of the melody, and finally the melody in two parts.
Eternal homecoming, as in history with a capital H, which always waits impatiently for the return of its redemtive saints and its dictators. I have the impression that I'm standing around in a plane; I remain in the same place and yet I go from Cairo to Kuala Lumpur.
Go and find out for yourself!
Claude Vivier
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for large orchestra
Scoring
3(III=picc).2.corA.2.Ebcl.3-4.2.2.1-perc(3):t.bells/vib/mar/crot/BD; 4rin gong/nipple gong/4nipple gongs(sm)/3tam-t(lo,med,hi)/Chin.gong/2metal plates/wdbl; t.bells/vib/mar/crot/BD-harp-strings
One of the percussionists has to sing into the tam-tam.
World Premiere
10/14/1980
Salle Wilfrid Pelletier, Montréal
Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal / Charles Dutoit
Composer's Notes Français
A melody on the trumpet, again the trumpet, as in Kopernikus, instrument of death in the Middle Ages (see the film by Bergman and read l'Office des morts)
Inevetably, this melody is cast upon itself without being able (wanting) to smash the wall of solitude.
Blissful destruction-the euphoria of egocentric despair. Beauty, pure Beauty, sad Beauty, cosmetic beauty, lacquered or wild beauty, monstrous and sexual.
Stop!
I begin again.
Orion is the name of a constellation; I have always turned it upside down-have always looked toward the east-stop! too personal. I was just about to speak of my mother.
Third start.
Orion consists of six sections: statement of the melody, first development of the melody unravelling on itself, second development of the melody unravelling on itself, meditation on the melody, remembrance of the melody, and finally the melody in two parts.
Eternal homecoming, as in history with a capital H, which always waits impatiently for the return of its redemtive saints and its dictators. I have the impression that I'm standing around in a plane; I remain in the same place and yet I go from Cairo to Kuala Lumpur.
Go and find out for yourself!
Claude Vivier
News stories for this title :
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