general information

composition date
2002
duration
8 min
editor
Boosey & Hawkes
Libretto (details, author)

Texes de Sally Potter.

type

Vocal music and instrument(s) (1 female voice and orchestra)

detailed formation

Soloist
soprano

oboe, clarinet, 2 bassoons, 2 horns, piccolo (also 2 flutes, alto flute), English horn, bass clarinet, celesta, strings

information about the creation

date
March 2002

États-Unis, Minneapolis

interpreters

Dawn Upshaw : soprano, Minnesota Orchestra, direction : Alan Gilbert.

observations

Œuvre également disponible en version instrumentale uniquement.

Program note

Night of the Flying Horses starts with an Yiddish lullaby that I composed for Sally Potter's film The Man Who Cried, set to function well in counterpoint to another important music theme in the soundtrack: Bizet's Aria Je Crois Entendre Encore, from The Pearl Fishers. In her film Sally explores the fate of Jews and Gypsies in the tragic mid-years of the 20th century, through a love story between a Jewish young woman and a Gypsy young man. The lullaby metamorphoses into a dense and dark doina (a slow, gypsy, rubato genre) featuring the lowest string of the violas. The piece ends in a fast gallop boasting a theme that I stole from my friends of the wild gypsy band Taraf de Haïdouks. The theme is presented here in a canonical chase between two orchestral groups.



Osvaldo Golijov, site internet du compositeur.

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