D & C

1994

3. 3. 3. 3. / 4. 4. 4. 2. / Pk. 4 Schlzg. / Klav. Hf. / Str.
11 min(s)

Publisher: G.RICORDI & Co GmbH, Munich

D & C for large orchestra is an acoustic edifice: not an illustratively animated portrait of a city but-its very structural backbone: corners, pillars, walls, facades. Though no specific architectonic images or particular cities are invoked, similarities are not coincidental, for instance to the five final fist-blows that will ultimately destroy the city in Kafka 's story "The City Coat Of Arms·: which open D & C and repeatedly cut swathes through the images. From a compositional standpoint, the various parts of the work are developed as variants on the pitches of D and C.

"All the legends and songs that came to birth in that city are filled with longing for a prophesied day when the city would be destroyed by five successive blows from a gigantic fist. lt is for that reason too that the city has closed fist on its coat of arms." Franz Kafka: The City Coat of Arms

"D&C für großes Orchester sind akustische Bauten, kein illustrativ belebtes Städteporträt, sondern deren strukturelles Rückenmark: Ecken, Pfeiler, Wände, Fassaden. Keine bestimmten architektonischen Bilder, keine bestimmten Städte sind gemeint, aber Ähnlichkeiten nicht zufällig, z.B. zu den letzten fünf Faustschlägen aus einer Erzählung Kafkas (Das Stadtwappen), die D&C eröffnen und immer wieder Schneisen in die Bilder schlagen.Kompositorisch sind die verschiedenen Teile als Varianten über die beiden Töne D und C entwickelt." Heiner Goebbels


Past Dates

April 2023
coloncontemporaneo
Teatro Colon, Buenos Aires (Argentina)

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