PROGRAM NOTES
About the qualities and defects of all of us, we are told stories of morals. But because man is a complicated being, the fable has been invented to illustrate behaviors that are simpler if they are played by animal characters. Let us be children or grown-up, we all perceive the fool’s false disdain beneath some delicious grapes, which he longs for but does not reach. We recognize the recklessness of the Ferret that lets herself get fat in the food pantry, when she knew how to escape if she could overcome gluttony. How many times do we remember the constancy of the tortoise and the zealous care of the ant? They are small narratives like these that we owe to Aesop, still from the times of Ancient Greece, and later to Jean de La Fontaine, who already in the seventeenth century gave them a truly universal popularity. (…) being this my musical approach, which intends above all to be sober.
NOTAS DE PROGRAMA
Sobre as qualidades e defeitos de todos nós, contam-se histórias de moral. Mas porque o Homem é um ser complicado, inventou-se a fábula, para ilustrar comportamentos que se revelam mais simples se forem protagonizados por personagens animais. Sejamos crianças ou crescidos, todos percebemos o falso desdém da raposa por debaixo de umas uvas deliciosas, as quais deseja mas não alcança. Reconhecemos a imprudência da Doninha que se deixa apanhar gorda na despensa da comida, quando sabia poder fugir se fosse capaz de vencer a gula. Quantas vezes lembramos a constância da tartaruga e o precavido zelo da formiga? São pequenas narrativas como estas que devemos a Esopo, ainda dos tempos da Grécia Antiga, e mais tarde a Jean de La Fontaine, que já no século XVII lhes destinou uma popularidade verdadeiramente universal. (…) sendo esta a minha  abordagem musical, que tenciona acima de tudo ser sóbria.
DURATION:33m 50sYEAR:2018
INSTRUMENTATIONwoodwind quartet solo & symphonic orchestra
Soloist(s)
  • Woodwind Quartet Solo || Flute || Oboe || B♭ Clarinet || Bassoon ||
Narrator
  • Narrator
Woodwinds
  • Piccolo
  • Flute 1-2
  • Oboe 1-2
  • B♭ Clarinet 1-2
  • Bassoon 1-2
Brass
  • B♭ Trumpet 1-2
  • F Horn 1-4
  • Trombone 1-3
  • Bass Trombone
  • Tuba
Percussion
  • Bass Drum || regular || traditional ||
  • Cajon
  • Crash Cymbals
  • Darbuka
  • Floor Tom
  • Ride Cymbal
  • Snare Drum || traditional ||
  • Suspended Cymbal
  • Tam-tam
  • Tambourine
  • Tom-tons
  • Triangle
  • Whip
Pitched Percussion
  • Glockenspiel
  • Marimba
  • Timpani
  • Vibraphone
  • Xylophone
Strings
  • Violin 1-2
  • Viola
  • Violoncello
  • Double Bass
COMMISSION
PERFORMANCES
  • Performance Orquestra Juvenil Metropolitana (Élio Leal, conductor) (Sofia Cosme, Hugo Azenha, Carla Duarte, Rafaela Oliveira, solo woodwind quartet) (Caldas da Rainha, Portugal) – 8 April 2020

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