gerelateerde werken
Concerto : for amplified cello and 15 instrumentalists, 1978 / James Fulkerson
Genre:
Orkest
Subgenre:
Cello en groot ensemble
Bezetting:
0031 0240 2perc pf 2cb vc-solo
Musichetta : per 14 strumenti, 1979 / Jos van Amelsvoort
Genre:
Orkest
Subgenre:
Groot ensemble (12 of meer spelers)
Bezetting:
2232 4000 cb
Gadget : for winds and double-bass, 1972-'79 / Will Eisma
Genre:
Orkest
Subgenre:
Groot ensemble (12 of meer spelers)
Bezetting:
2231 sax-a 2000 cb
Contra tempus / Louis Andriessen
Genre:
Orkest
Subgenre:
Groot ensemble (12 of meer spelers)
Bezetting:
3300 0330 2perc 2pf (2keyboard ad lib.) 4vla
compositie
Pessoa I : for instrumental ensemble, 1992 / James Fulkerson
Overige auteurs:
Fulkerson, James
(Componist)
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