2024-05-24 03:01:00
Within the fifth program of this season on the Teatro Colón, the Buenos Aires Philharmonic Orchestra will supply a various program, through which the Piano Concerto in A minor Op. 16 by Edvard Grieg –with the participation of the good Swiss-Canadian pianist Theo Gheorghiu as a soloist – and Symphony No. 12 in D minor Op. 112 by Dimitri Shostakovich, will dialogue with Tears of Tahuariwork of the Argentine-French composer Gabriel Sivak which premieres in Buenos Aires. The live performance will happen on Friday the twenty fourth at 8pm and will probably be directed by the Venezuelan Manuel Hernandez Silva.
It might be the imaginary licenses that permit reference to folklore traditions, understood as a palette of sounds and catalog of identification gestures, which unites the works in this system. There are echoes of Norway within the piano concerto of Grieg, who appeals to the folklore traditions of his homeland from his romantic expertise, in the identical approach that Prokofiev’s Russia, who evokes the occasions of 1917 in his symphony, is recomposed in his Symphony No. 12. In the identical course, Tears of Tahuariby Gabriel Sivak, is the sound reconstruction of a direct expertise within the Amazon. In 2022 the composer lived for a time among the many Kuikuros Indians, in deep Brazilfrom the place he returned with the concepts and understanding vital to meet the fee of the Orchester des Pays de la Loire and the Fondation Banque Populaire.
As Heitor Villa-Lobos and extra lately Egberto Gismonti knew find out how to do, within the face of an unknown world, Sivak was nourished by exuberant nature and weird experienceswhich gave his music different sound textures, ethnic colours and tribal rhythms, along with elevating consciousness about the harmful side of man in opposition to nature. “I had been arising with the thought of a piece impressed by the Amazon for a very long time. In 2019, when set fireplace In entrance of the eyes of your entire world, whereas Bolsonaro mentioned that it wasn’t that massive of a deal, I started to listen to music inside my head through which there was extra substance to put in writing, and that substance was conditioned by the state of affairs. That is once I determined to finalize the challenge,” Sivak tells Web page 12.
Humboldt’s biodiversity texts and Levi-Strauss’s anthropology texts accompanied the duty of gathering helpful sound supplies that Sivak undertook to start mapping out the work. “I deepened my analysis into the music of the Amazon and shortly after I arrived within the territory Xingu, a reserve the place 13 ethnic teams dwell. Proper there I began composing, however with the thought of giving a dramatic twist to the work, a form of teatro musical, considering extra about giving testimony of how folks lived in that territory, than about exposing a mere sound description of the panorama. “Extra criticism than colour, for instance,” says the composer. “After I had a major variety of sketches, I started to pick, additionally based mostly on my expertise within the jungle,” he provides.
Tears of Tahuari It’s articulated in 5 moments. “Entrada no mato”, the primary evokes the entry into the jungle and the Kwarup ritual with which the Indians exorcise the ache over the loss of life of a cherished one. “There I attempted to reinterpret with the European orchestra the sounds of the flutes, which they use whereas strolling, interesting to the multiphonic method with the bassoons,” explains Sivak. The second motion is ‘Huka-Huka’ and has to do with a martial artwork practiced by the indigenous folks, a form of sumo however very shifting and sensual, for which I created a rhythmic texture with pizzicatos on the strings. The third motion is ‘Aguas de Buriti’. There the music suggests the immersion in nature. Buriti is the river the place we bathed, which I evoked with a sound of submerged devices, which I discovered very suggestive,” continues the composer.
“Danse et polyrythmie,” the fourth motion, is a form of nonetheless picture of considerable nature. “I structured it based mostly on subject recordings which we did by going into the jungle on a bike with an Indian. With that sound materials of bugs and varied issues, I created a collection of loops that turned out to be a rhythmic base that I transferred to the strings,” says Sivak, who for the finale “Kuikuros” appealed to a rhythmic dithyramb typical of the ethnic teams of the Xingu territory. “I really feel that with this work I reached the paroxysm of my relationship with Brazil, its music and its tradition,” concludes Sivak, who a number of years in the past composed Suite Capoeirafor string quartet, impressed by northeastern rhythms, and was for a time the guitarist and composer’s arranger Toquinho.
Primarily based in Paris since 2005, Sivak, who at present works in a opera In collaboration with Alejandro Tantanián, He occupies a outstanding place amongst French composers of this period. His works are often carried out in France by the soloists of the French Nationwide Orchestra, the Radio France Youngsters’s Choir, The Orchestra des Pays de la Loire, The Orchestra of Picardie and The Colonne Orchestra, to call a number of; A part of his manufacturing is recorded in 4 monographic albums. The latest, Dance within the waters of Buriti (Casa Velazquez, 2023), comprises the recording of Tears of Tahuari. “It is a delight It is extremely nice to return to Buenos Aires and have my music performed on the Teatro Colón, with the Philharmonic Orchestra. It’s ultimately a circle that closes in my life, ready for a brand new one to open,” Sivak concludes.