Piano
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HL.14010480
Piano
Solo. Composed by Per
Norgard. Music Sales
America. Classical. Book
[Softcover]. 7 pages.
Music Sales #KP00717.
Published by Music Sales
(HL.14010480).
ISBN
9788759870082.
Danish.
Esperanza -
Eremitkrebs-Tango (1997)
Hermit Crab Tango,
Esperanza is part of
Norgard's Animals in
Concert, a suite of piano
pieces, so far comprised
of: 1. A Tortoise's
Tango (1984) - dur.:
4' 2. Light of a
Night - Paul meets bird
(1989) - dur.: 6'
3. Hermit Crab Tango -
Esperanza (1997) - dur.:
5' The pieces can
be performed together or
one by one. In
the1980s, quite a few
“finds”
turned up in Per
Norgard's music. The
material could be, say, a
number of song birds'
equilibrist melodic
lines, the overtones of
the ocean surf, or
waltzing themes by the
schizophrenic artist
Adolf Wolfli (1864-1930).
Or again, as heard here,
it can be the rhythms and
motifs of the tango and a
Beatles song (with bird),
explored in three
independent piano pieces
that form the Animals in
Concert suite, about
which the composer
writes: Programme
note for Animals in
Concert: 1. A
Tortoise's Tango (1984) -
dur.: 4' 2. Light
of a Night - Paul meets
bird (1989) - dur.:
6' 3. Hermit Crab
Tango - Esperanza (1997)
- dur.: 5' The
pieces can be performed
together or one by
one. In the1980s,
quite a few
“finds”
turned up in Per
Norgard's music. The
material could be, say, a
number of song birds'
equilibrist melodic
lines, the overtones of
the ocean surf, or
waltzing themes by the
schizophrenic artist
Adolf Wolfli (1864-1930).
Or again, as heard here,
it can be the rhythms and
motifs of the tango and a
Beatles song (with bird),
explored in three
independent piano pieces
that form the Animals in
Concert suite, about
which the composer
writes: “A
Tortoise's Tango”:
The tortoise as tango
dancer must presumably
possess certain rhythmic
peculiarities, which I
have chosen to express by
letting the tune of the
tortoise shuffle broadly,
tripartite through the
strict four partite time
of tango. Tortoise
Tango was the original
title of this piece,
“written for
Achilles” (the
pianist Yvar Mikhashoff),
for his so called tango
project”, including
new tangos for piano by
composers from all over
the world.
“Light of a Night
(Paul meets bird)”
was commissioned by
pianist Aki Takahashi. It
is a
“reworked”
arrangement for piano of
the Beatles song
”Blackbird”.
As some of us will
recall, the Beatles on
“The White
Album” let the
beautiful song to the
blackbird be accompanied
by an (apparently) live
blackbird song. It is
this authentic bird-motif
world that in
“Light of a
Night” weaves
itself into the Beatles
melody and in turn is
gradually infected by it,
so that a completely new
third entity ensues: a
kind of Bird-rock ballad
(or maybe it is a
Beatle-bird?).
“Hermit Crab Tango
(Esperanza)”: The
tango situation is quite
special for a Hermit
Crab. It is a well-known
fact that the hermit crab
- this soft animal - must
run the gauntlet among
the many perils at the
bottom of the sea when it
must move hose. I have
chosen to express the
angers by a.
Remi Wolf
