1 Hour of Georgie Porgie Pudding and Pie for Sleeping Babies

1 Hour of Georgie Porgie Pudding and Pie for Sleeping Babies, Pt. 26

Nick Davies, Clarinet, Wesley Ducote, piano

A "cabinet of curiosities,” also known as a Wunderkammer, is an elaborate cupboard used as a repository of diverse and exotic objects, the assembly of which was a popular pastime for the affluent European of the 16th and 17th centuries. (The trompe l’oeil cabinet at left is by Andrea Domenico Remps, ca. 1620–1699.)

A typical cabinet would contain a wide array of small, rare and intriguing items drawn from the natural world (ornate coral and shells, bizarre insects), science (intricate clocks and toys, distorted mirrors), history (letters, relics, antiquities) and art (carvings, miniature paintings, figurines). imageCabinet of Curiosities presents a similarly diverse musical collection: six short pieces, each one with a somewhat peculiar and idiosyncratic character. The first imagines a still life painting in which one of the subjects is less than stationary. The second is a sort of vaulting dance, written as a musical palindrome. There follows an anamorphic fantasy on an old English folksong, a stately Baroque dance built on ascending and descending scales, and a billet doux for solo clarinet. The last movement is a set of rhythmic variations on the eleven-beat Bulgarian Kopanitsa rhythm.

Cabinet of Curiosities: 3. Early One Morning in a Convex Mirror

Infinity: Piano Lounge

Soft Sparks

Felicidade por um fio

Felicidade

Focus Falls: Deep Focus Tracks

Silence of Focus

Denkraum: Konzentrations Musik

Ruhige Lernmusik

I've been awake for 92 hours, the worst insomnia I've ever experienced, at the point where little makes sense and where my brain seems to be past the point of try to produce sleep chemicals due to my adrenal glands winning the battle. A brain fighting against itself. I was unable to calculate the number of hours I've been awake in my head and had to use a calculator, but I was still able to be coordinated enough to play this piece on the piano. Here is me desperately hoping for peace.

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Midi recording

Inspired by the poem, "Still I Rise: By Maya Angelou

You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I'll rise.

Does my sassiness upset you?
Why are you beset with gloom?
’Cause I walk like I've got oil wells
Pumping in my living room.

Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I'll rise.

Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops,
Weakened by my soulful cries?

Does my haughtiness offend you?
Don't you take it awful hard
’Cause I laugh like I've got gold mines
Diggin’ in my own backyard.

You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I’ll rise.

Does my sexiness upset you?
Does it come as a surprise
That I dance like I've got diamonds
At the meeting of my thighs?

Out of the huts of history’s shame
I rise
Up from a past that’s rooted in pain
I rise
I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide,
Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.

Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
I rise
Into a daybreak that’s wondrously clear
I rise
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise.

Copyright Credit: Maya Angelou, "Still I Rise" from And Still I Rise: A Book of Poems.  Copyright © 1978 by Maya Angelou.  Used by permission of Random House, an imprint and division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved.
Source: The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou (1994)


756 Still I Rise

Apart

I composed this piece with the ticking included about an older build house that is still bursting with life just yet to be uncovered.

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1 Hour of Georgie Porgie Pudding and Pie for Sleeping Babies, Pt. 26

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