Innumerevoli volte, improvvisi tracolli (2023)
For Soprano and ensemble
Commission: Syntax Ensemble
Artistic direction: IMAGO (Season 2023, Syntax Ensemble)
Première: Auditorium San Fedele, Milan (ITA) - October 13, 2023
Performers: Pasquale Corrado (conductor) Syntax Ensemble
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Program notes:
“Innumerevoli volte , Improvvisi Tracolli” is the image etched in the memory of a woman
contemplating the inexorable flow of time, a spectator observing from an outside
perspective the ephemeral nature of time and life.
A fleeting, unstoppable time, like a force that flows ceaselessly.
A time characterised by objects and figures that present themselves countless times, with
minimal variations and different points of observation.
A wish to capture each gesture, in its variations and in its collapses, as in a recorder in
which time can be stopped and brought back to memory in each instant.
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Innumerevoli volte
ho guardato dalla finestra
ogni forma e ogni movimento
era miracolo nella retina
allargava il futuro esiguo
oltre la mia casa
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oggetti della mia devozione
minime varianti e improvvisi tracolli
continuano la loro storia
conosco la gloria dei platani d’estate
e la loro invernale umiliazione
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Gemma Bracco