Programmatoelichting 'Rosa'
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Louis Andriessen
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For: wind ensemble<br/><br/>Louis Andriessen composed Rosa, a horse drama on a libretto by Peter Greenaway. Rosa grew from Greenaway's plan for a project entitled The Death of Webern, concerning the deaths of ten composers. From it, he extracted the episode dealing with Juan Manuel de Rosa, a fictitious Brazilian composer/pianist who applies his talents to the writing of film music for westerns. To gather inspiration for this work, Rosa projects film fragments and all the while rides his horse in front of the screen. As the story progresses, the real world and that of film become increasingly entangled with each other. Film becomes reality, real people appear as film characters. An eventual catastrophe is unavoidable and Rosa becomes the victim of a murder. In the course of the ensuing investigation, conducted by Caecilia, the patron saint of composers, the death of Rosa is brought into relationship with a larger matter: a conspiracy against music. Rosa, in a Netherlands Opera production, was premiered in Amsterdam on November 2, 1994.<br/>The Overture to Rosa is based on Hout (1991), written for the group LOOS (tenor saxophone, guitar, piano and marimba). Andriessen adds two layers to this instrumentation. The first layer, for woodwinds and percussion, consists of long legato-like lines. The second layer is a slow staccato-waltz for brass. The opera ends with a rap of index words used in the opera, performed by actress Phyllis Blanford.<br/>
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