- Informations générales
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Date de composition :
2001
- Durée : 8 mn
- Éditeur : Boosey & Hawkes
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Livret (détail, auteur) :
Textes d'Emily Dickinson.
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Date de composition :
2001
- Genre
- Musique vocale et instrument(s) [1 voix soliste et ensemble jusqu'à 9 instruments]
- soliste : soprano
- violon, violon II, alto, violoncelle
Information sur la création
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Date :
2001
Lieu :États-Unis, Lenox, Tanglewood, Ozawa Hall
Interprètes :Dawn Upshaw et le quatuor CEWM.
Observations
Il existe également une version de cette œuvre pour soprano et orchestre, voir How Slow the Wind.
Note de programme
How Slow the Wind, a setting of two short Emily Dickinson poems, was Golijov's response to the death in an accident of his friend Mariel Stubrin. He writes, 'I had in mind one of those seconds in life that is frozen in the memory, forever-a sudden death, a single instant in which life turns upside down, different from the experience of death after a long agony.' Originally for voice and string quartet, the piece was commissioned by Cecilia Wasserman, in memory of her late husband Herb, for Close Encounters with Music and was first performed in their Seiji Ozawa Hall concert of May 5, 2001, by Dawn Upshaw, soprano; Toby Appel and Justine Chen, violins; Kenji Bunch, viola, and Yehuda Hanani, cello.
Osvaldo Golijov, site internet du compositeur.
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