Acqua alle corde! (Water to the strings!) is a 16th
Century expression which refers to a courage and greatness of spirit that someone
shows in the face of an extreme difficult situation, even when his/her own life
is exposed to a significant risk.
Edson Zampronha wrote Acqua alle Corde! to the cellist Trino Zurita, who is premiering it at the Ateneo
Barcelonés (in Barcelona, Spain) next June 08, 2012 (8:00 pm), as part of the "Concerts-Phonos 2011-2012".
The
expression Acqua alle corde! appeared
in 1586, when the Egyptian obelisk at the Vatican St. Peter's Square was being
risen up and the ropes used to rise it were so tense that they were about to
break.
The title
of this work has a clear double meaning. The cello's tense strings produce a huge emotional and expressive drama, and the
electroacoustic sounds connect with the cello for the production of many stretching gestures
in space.
This scenery is completed by human voices from renaissance that comes
out from nothing, like a distorted echo from the past, creating a beautiful layer
of sounds that contrast with the cello and electroacoustic sounds: two musical
and contrasting musical eras are put together.
Trino
Zurita is a magnificent performer! His breathtaking performance shows a deep
comprehension and secure control of the music of out time. This will be a great
premiere! In this concert Zurita also includes great works by Eduardo
Polonio, Gabriel Brncic, Andrés Lewin-Richter, Horacio Vaggione and José
López-Montes.
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