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Asunder

for chamber orchestra
Kammerorchester
Ausgabe: Aufführungsmaterial

Produktdetails

Beschreibung

I can’t tell you how to feel with this piece, but I can tell you how I felt while writing it, which is essentially how it feels to call oneself an American today: pulled apart, broken, anxious, untethered. My original impulse, for that reason, was to visit that same violence on the orchestra — to destroy it as a totality, and force the players into small, irregular, vulnerable aggregates instead. But I eventually abandoned this position, because it seemed to reproduce the same problem that traps us every day. If one way to respond to our era of disunity is to portray it accurately, perhaps another alternative is to imagine unity anew. So I chose to work against the titular fragmentation, and strive instead for synchronies of movement, sturdy resonances, structural accumulations, and an ear toward pleasure.

I never trusted the kind of biographical musicology that attributes musical details to the composer’s real-life highs and lows — never, that is, until I started composing a lot of works myself, particularly those that I do not steer from the piano. If presence-in-the-present is my priority as a pianist, then as a composer I try to give sound to the full texture of the moment in which I write, the temporal vantage from which I get to “show up.” Composing becomes a kind of time capsule, a souvenir of whatever felt urgent yesterday. Still, it is meant to be inhabited by players and listeners in the present. My hope is that this piece might, at least for its duration, serve to unify the bodies in the room -- an experience that is hard to find today, and one that might stay with you until tomorrow.

- Vijay Iyer October 3, 2017

Orchesterbesetzung

2.2.2.2-2.2.0.0-1perc(timp, glsp, drum kit [tri, ride cym, sus cym, s.d, 3 tom-t, b.d])-str(6.5.4.4.2)

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Titel:
Asunder
for chamber orchestra
Ausgabe:
Aufführungsmaterial
Schwierigkeitsgrad:
fortgeschritten
Verlag/Label:
Schott Music
Kompositionsjahr:
2017
Spieldauer:
15 ′
Uraufführung:
12. Oktober 2017 · Lincoln, NE (USA)
Lied Center for the Performing Arts
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

Auftragswerk:
Commissioned by Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra

Technische Details

Bestellnummer:
LSMC 50765

Aufführungen

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    Musikalische Leitung: Pekka Kuusisto
    Orchester: Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra
    12. Januar 2019 | Saint Paul, MN (Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika) , Ordway Concert Hall
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    Musikalische Leitung: Pekka Kuusisto
    Orchester: Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra
    11. Januar 2019 | Saint Paul, MN (Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika) , Ordway Concert Hall
  • Asunder
    Orchester: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
    26. Oktober 2017 | New York, NY (Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika) , Carnegie Hall
  • Asunder
    Orchester: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
    22. Oktober 2017 | Newark, NJ (Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika) , New Jersey Performing Arts Center
  • Asunder
    Orchester: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
    12. Oktober 2017 | Lincoln, NE (Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika) , Lied Center for the Performing Arts — Uraufführung
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