componist
James Fulkerson werd op 2 juli 1945 in Illinois (USA) geboren.
Opleiding
Hij studeerde aan de Wesleyan University (B.A., 1966) en de University of Illinois (M.M., 1969). Hij had tromboneles van Carmine ...
gerelateerde werken
Genre:
Vocaal
Subgenre:
Zangstem solo; Elektronica en zangstem(men) met of zonder instrument(en)
Bezetting:
sopr-m tape electronics
Speed-well : version for ensemble, 1993 / revision 1995 / Frank Crijns
Genre:
Orkest
Subgenre:
Groot ensemble (12 of meer spelers)
Bezetting:
2010 2sax 2121 perc el.g g-b pf
Groter, langer, harder! ... Book 1 : for ensemble, 1999-2005 / Chiel Meijering
Genre:
Orkest
Subgenre:
Groot ensemble (12 of meer spelers)
Bezetting:
2010 2sax 1(-2)121 perc el.g pf el.cb
Genre:
Orkest
Subgenre:
Groot ensemble (12 of meer spelers); Orkest
Bezetting:
1111 1111 2perc hp pf(cel) 2vl vla vc cb / str
compositie
Pessoa I : for instrumental ensemble, 1992 / James Fulkerson
Toelichting:
Program note (English): Pessoa's heteronyms coped with a problem which afflicts everyone writing now. 'I must say that', one thinks, 'and yet how, in this day and age, can I? It is me, but only part of me. A part, but still essential. It will be false if I write as I.' Any honest writer now has at times to make so many qualifications that they either overload his art or inhibit it, unless a persona enables him to explore without hedging. Pessoa set himself free by hiving off three great swarms of his thoughts and feelings, and setting them free ... (Jonathan Griffin, Fernando Pessoa: selected poems, Harmondsworth, 1971). This problem of living with images which float constantly in and out of the edges of one's conciousness is a problem which we all experience and indeed, Griffin's statement brilliantly states the dilemma which it creates for us. Yet, these images continue to go in and out of our consciousness precisely because of this dilemma. We cannot use them because they 'belong to someone else'
or 'because one cannot use that kind of material' - yet - they continue to re-appear because they demand to be confronted and worked through them and because I believe we can only write about that which we know firsthand. - JAMES FULKERSON