Fantasy and Nocturne
Nocturne and Fantasy (2009)
Duration: circa 10 minutes
Premiered by Mark Robson at Piano Spheres 2008-09 concert season, Zipper Hall, Los Angeles, April 28th, 2009.
Program Notes:
Two movements contrasting in character: the Nocturne, a moment of reflexion, where gentle lines are combined in delicate and nostalgic gestures, and the Fantasia, fiery, extravagant, and relentless.
Both movements identify the idea of self-reference as the creative engine. Self-reference allows for objects that refer back to themselves, as in Magritte’s “‘This is not a pipe” or Velázquez' “Las Menina’s”. The process of ” looking back to itself” was infused, for example, in the Nocturne in fractal-like counterpoint where an object combines, simultaneously, multiple scaled-down versions of itself, as if a melodic and temporal “Russian doll”
Dedicated to Mark Robson.
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copyright@2009
Registered with BMI
Duration: circa 10 minutes
Premiered by Mark Robson at Piano Spheres 2008-09 concert season, Zipper Hall, Los Angeles, April 28th, 2009.
Program Notes:
Two movements contrasting in character: the Nocturne, a moment of reflexion, where gentle lines are combined in delicate and nostalgic gestures, and the Fantasia, fiery, extravagant, and relentless.
Both movements identify the idea of self-reference as the creative engine. Self-reference allows for objects that refer back to themselves, as in Magritte’s “‘This is not a pipe” or Velázquez' “Las Menina’s”. The process of ” looking back to itself” was infused, for example, in the Nocturne in fractal-like counterpoint where an object combines, simultaneously, multiple scaled-down versions of itself, as if a melodic and temporal “Russian doll”
Dedicated to Mark Robson.
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copyright@2009
Registered with BMI