Programmatoelichting 'Tao'
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Program notes 'Tao'
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Programmatoelichting 'Tao'
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Louis Andriessen
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Duration: 18'<br/>For: piano (also voice and koto), 4 female voices and ensemble<br/>Commissioned by the Südwestfunk, for the 75th birthday of the Donaueschinger Musiktage<br/><br/>Première: October 1996 - Donaueschingen - Tomoko Mukaiyama, Radio Kamer Orkest<br/>cond. Peter Eötvös<br/><br/><br/>TAO is the second part of a larger work in three movements: Trilogy of The Last Day. It provides the meditative feminine counterbalance through its scoring for small orchestra, female voices and the multi-talents of Tomoko Mukaiyama. The female voices sing a text from Tao The Jing by Lao Tzu (Nr. 50) dating from 600 BC, exploring the journey between life and death with 13 companions, represented musically by the 13 chords which underpin the score. The piano soloist closes the piece by singing a setting of a 20th century poem by Takamura Kotaro (1883-1956) Knife Whetter, while accompanying herself on the koto. There is a kind of contradiction between the two texts: in Tao The Jing dominates calm, emptiness, and in the chosen fragment: invulnerability. But Kotaro's poem is primarily ominous.<br/>I did not even try to relate to what people call "Music from the Far East", or, even worse: "Worldmusic".<br/><br/><br/>Louis Andriessen<br/>
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