Kronos Quartet - Aleksandra Vrebalov: ... hold me, neighbor, in this storm... (live @ Novi Sad)
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- Опубликовано: 25 дек 2024
- 12 January 2012, Serbian National Theatre, Novi Sad;
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Aleksandra Vrebalov, a native of the former Yugoslavia, left Serbia in 1995 and continued her education in the United States. About ...hold me, neighbor, in this storm... she writes:
"The Balkans, with its multitude of cultural and religious identities, has had a troubled history of ethnic intolerance. For my generation of Tito's pioneers and children of Communists, growing up in the former Yugoslavia meant learning about and carrying in our minds the battles and numberless ethnic and religious conflicts dating back half a millennium, and honoring ancestors who died in them. By then, that distant history had merged with the nearer past, so those we remember from World War II are our grandparents. Their stories we heard firsthand. After several devastating ethnic wars in the 1990s we entered a new century, this time each of us knowing in person someone who perished. As I write this in November 2007, on RUclips a new generation of Albanians and Serbs post their war-songs bracing for another conflict, claiming their separate entitlements to the land and history, rather than a different kind of future, together.
Strangely, the cultural and religious differences that led to enmity in everyday life produced - after centuries of turbulently living together - most incredible fusions in music. It is almost as if what we weren't able to achieve through words and deeds - to fuse, and mix, and become something better and richer together - our music so famously accomplished instead.
...hold me, neighbor, in this storm... is inspired by folk and religious music from the region, whose insistent rhythms and harmonies create a sense of inevitability, a ritual trance with an obsessive, dark energy. Peaceful passages of the work grew out of the delicately curved, elusive, often microtonal melodies of prayers, as well as escapist tavern songs from the region, as my grandmother remembers them.
For me, ...hold me, neighbor... is a way to bring together the sounds of the church bells of Serbian orthodox monasteries and the Islamic calls for prayer. It is a way to connect histories and places by unifying one of the most civilized sounds of Western classical music - that of the string quartet - with ethnic Balkan instruments, the gusle [a bowed string instrument] and tapan [large double-headed drum]. It is a way to piece together our identities fractured by centuries of intolerance, and to reach out and celebrate the land so rich in its diversity, the land that would be ashen, empty, sallow, if any one of us, all so different, weren't there."
Bilo je savrseno...
The composer sings along with her grandmother. It was playback, as well as sounds of the clock, church bells and laughing. Male voice was from a member of the quartet, and you can see him on the stage at the beginning.
After Goran Bregovic, Alexandra Vrebalov is also using the original folk The Lark in this string quartet. Congratulations!
Let's discover the real original song!
The Lark (SEVA) is really great folk song!
what is an Idea exactly, as if it mattered these days...
It is a shame to steal the music from the other composer and make money.
If you don't have music ideas, don't pretend to be a composer.