Vladimir Tarnopolsky - Echoes of the Passing Day (1989) for clarinet, cello and piano I | Текст песни

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• Echoes of the Passing Day (1989) for clarinet, cello and piano I

The trio Echoes Of the Passing Day takes the form of a kind of musical equivalent of the Proustian-Joycean 'stream of consciousness'. A free stream of sound associations, themselves set in motion by the actual title of the work, is called upon to bring out not the directly linear logical connections between elements but rather their remote subconsciously associative connections. The style of the composition seems like the product of an 'after-culture', when such radically different phenomena as quotations from Beethoven and instrumental theatre are naturally able to exist side by side in a single context.

The work is dedicated to Elizabeth Wilson and interwoven within it are two emblems of her name: Beethoven Fur Elise and the American popular song Elizabeth. The process of musical development also takes in archetypal symbols of national differences (for the Germans the march-like 'rechts-links'; for the Russians the exasperated question 'Shto delat'?' - "What is to be done?' -...Chemyshesky ...Lenin... Perestroika...).

The closing quotation of a line from Ulysses draws everything that has gone before as it were into the context of a Joycean novel.

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