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  • Sánchez-Verdú: GRAMMA
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José M. Sánchez-Verdú (*1968) GRAMMA

Jardines de la escritura – Chamber Opera [solos,mix ch,orch] 2004-2006 Duration: 60'

solos: 2STBar – Sp- choir: CT/MezTBarB – fl(picc.B-fl).clar(B-clar.db-lar).sax.bsn(dble bsn). – trp.tbne. – perc(2) – acc – 4vl.2va.2vc.db


World premiere: Munich (Münchener Biennale), May 18, 2006

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Commissioned by Landeshauptstadt München für Münchener Biennale, Lucerne Theater and El Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía, Valencia

Solos: Thamos (actor, speaker) / Tot (baritone) Sirena (soprano) Ulisses (tenor) Venus (soprano) ensemble: fl(picc.B-fl).clar(B-clar.db-lar).sax.bsn(dble bsn). – trp.tbne. – perc(2) – acc – 4vl.2va.2vc.db

Writing is a good deed and undoing. It preserves and explains, destroys and lies. The chamber opera Gramma reflects musically and dramatically on the possibilities and dangers of the ability to write things down, on the vanity of the written word, its power to manipulate, but the work is also about the battle of writing against forgetting at ist ability to conjure up new worlds. Referencing texts by Plato, Homer, Augustine, Ovid, Hugo de San Victor, Stéphane Mallarmé and Paul Celan as well as the Bible, the Koran and Torah, the chamber opera creates a connection between wirtten and musical forms of representation.


Bibliography:

Steimel, Olivia: Zum Einsatz des Akkordeons als Orchesterinstrument im modernen Musiktheater, gezeigt an den folgenden Werken: Adriana Hölszky: Die Wände (1993-94), Hans Zender: Chief Joseph (2003), José M. Sánchez-Verdú: GRAMMA Gärten der Schrift (2004-06), Diplomarbeit an der Hochschule für Musik Würzburg 2012.
Sánchez-Verdú, José M.: Schrift und Aura im Musiktheater, in: Neue Musik in Bewegung. Musik- und Tanztheater heute, hrsg. von Jörn Peter Hiekel (= Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für Neue Musik und Musikerziehung Darmstadt, Band 51), Mainz u.a.: Schott 2011, pp. 79-101.

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