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One Says. History Is. for solo piano
RSN:
72373
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Composition Date:
2003
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Revision Date:
N/A
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Duration:
00:28:00
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Call Number
MI 2110 H361one
Genre
Solo Piano
Material Type
Print-music
Acquisition Date
2017-04-13
Library Collection Publisher / Label
Unpublished, printed by CMC / Inédit, imprimé par le CMC
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I. How do you like what you have heard II. History Leaves No Place III. Which it is as they do Using text from Gertrude Stein.
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52495
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Piano
1
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20 April 2003, Casa del Popolo, Montreal, Québec Marc Couroux, piano
How long can we continue to accumulate the weight of history? Every year, every day, every moment even, is an addition to our past. Coming with this weight is an incredible inertia and with this a sense of the inevitability of events. History seems to push on, repeating itself, cycling through set patterns even while accompanied by a sense of progress and growth. A text read by the pianist comes from Gertrude Stein’s ‘We came. A history’, written in 1930 and characterized by a highly unusual presentation: the final 3/4 of the text is written completely as short bursts of words joined together by equal signs. (“How do you like what you have heard=History must be distinguised=From mistakes.=History must not be about=What is happening.=History must not be about=dogs and balls in all.=The meaning of those=Words. History must be= , etc) The weight of these words through this expression is countered by a considered acceptance and appreciation of the inevitability of historical events: “History is what it is=which it is as they do.” ‘One says. History is’ attempts to address the weight and inertia of history, an address coloured by the recent events in Iraq. The acceptance of the inevitability of history is perhaps not as easy in this work as with Stein’s. Virtuosic, physical playing gives way over the three movements (each much shorter than the previous) to a more resigned, wistful expression. ‘One says. History is’ was written for the tremendous talents of pianist Marc Couroux.
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Calgary
01CA72373
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Toronto
01TO72373
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Vancouver
01VA72373
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