{"id":128,"date":"2016-01-14T11:40:34","date_gmt":"2016-01-14T16:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/?p=128"},"modified":"2016-01-15T09:40:51","modified_gmt":"2016-01-15T14:40:51","slug":"crumb-an-idyll-for-the-misbegotten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/crumb-an-idyll-for-the-misbegotten\/","title":{"rendered":"Crumb – An Idyll for the Misbegotten"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Composer:\u00a0 George Crumb<\/p>\n

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Title:\u00a0 An Idyll for the Misbegotten (Images III)<\/p>\n

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Number of Players:\u00a0 1 amplified flutist, 3 percussionists<\/p>\n

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  • \u2022 1. Pair of bongos, 5 toms, African log drum (requiring 2 pitches), small bass drum<\/li>\n
  • \u2022 2. Pair of bongos, 5 toms, African log drum (requiring 2 pitches), medium bass drum<\/li>\n
  • \u2022 3. Largest bass drum available<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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    Approx. length:\u00a0 15 minutes<\/p>\n

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    Composer\u2019s Notes:<\/p>\n

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    I feel that \u201cmisbegotten\u201d well describes the fateful and melancholy predicament of the species homo sapiens<\/em> at the present moment in time.\u00a0 Mankind has become ever more \u201cillegitimate\u201d in the natural world of the plants and animals.\u00a0 The ancient sense of brotherhood with all life-forms (so poignantly expressed in the poetry of St. Francis of Assisi) has gradually and relentlessly eroded, and consequently we find ourselves monarchs of a dying world.\u00a0 We share the fervent hope that humankind will embrace anew nature\u2019s \u201cmoral imperative.\u201d<\/p>\n

    My little Idyll<\/em> was inspired by these thoughts.\u00a0 Flute and drums are, to me (perhaps by association with ancient ethnic musics), those instruments which most powerfully evoke the voice of nature.\u00a0 I have suggested that ideally (even if impractically) my Idyll<\/em> should be \u201cheard from afar, over a lake, on a moonlit evening in August.\u201d<\/p>\n

    An Idyll for the Misbegotten<\/em> evokes the haunting theme of Claude Debussy\u2019s Syrinx<\/em> (for solo flute, 1912).\u00a0 There is also a short quotation from the eighth century Chinese poet Ssu-K\u2019ung Shu:<\/p>\n

    \u201cThe moon goes down.\u00a0 There are shivering<\/p>\n

    birds and withering grasses.\u201d<\/p>\n

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    -George Crumb<\/p>\n

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    Categories:<\/p>\n

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    Mixed Ensemble<\/p>\n

    Multi Percussion<\/p>\n

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    Annotated by David Luidens<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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