Live performance at Oberlin 2.26.19
Oberlin New Music Ensemble
Conducted by Tim Weiss at the Oberlin Conservatory Warner Hall

Lyric Rivera, fulte/alto flute/piccolo
T. Colton Potter, oboe/English horn
Caleb Rose, clarinet I
Alex Abreu, clarinet II
Brian Geise, bassoon/contrabassoon
Nicholas Ginsburg, horn
Sam Friedman, trumpet
Evelyn Proffit, trombone
Carson Fratus, percussion I
Eli Geruschat, percussion  II
Amanda Lubin, piano
Esther Roestan, violin I
Simone Hammet-Lynch, violin II
Corley Friesen-Johnson, viola
Luka Stefanovic, cello
Matthew Frerck, contrabass

About the work:

In Spanish there are two verbs for the English verb “to be”, one is ser (to be) and the other one is estar (to be). The difference between the two is the quality of permanence: estar is a transitory state, an accidental element of being, while ser is permanent, ex. I am (ser) a human being, I am (estar) tired. The Spanish word esencia (essence) is descriptive of the ser verb form, the true nature of anything, not accidental or illusory (Merrian-Webster).

I find myself thinking about this a lot in times of change. Living in another country demands an immense effort for adaptation, in which one of the dangers -and almost unavoidable stage- is the feeling of losing oneself. Being at a distance with all the elements that made me myself: my culture, my family, my mother language, made me value all the small-things, those moments, places, persons that have now became lucid memories that I jealously treasure. And, aren’t we all just memories? Those instants that we chose to keep at the surface, and even the ones that remain deep inside, hidden, they shape our being, our feelings, our responses, they become our essence.

Esencia - Oberlin New Music Ensemble, conducted by Tim Weiss

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A tribute, in deep honour and respect,
        to this BRAVE woman 🙏✨🌿✨🙏

Malak al-Shehri was arrested in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 
for - NOT - wearing hijab...after posting the photo above, on Twitter in 2016...

    You may CRY 😪 but never - EVER - be SILENT 🤐
   
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Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.” 
― Plato.

I believe in the universal language and force in music. 
― Sigrid Moldestad, a norwegian folksinger/songwriter

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Melancholy is like wandering on the bottom
of a huge secret.
― Kari Bremnes, a norwegian singer/

Secrets
I do believe people should have more secrets as to another ... We should keep our mouth shut; 
and rather visit «the strawberry Fields» 
in stead of speaking them to death.  
― Kari Bremnes

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One should have lived before in life, and yet,
one should live now 🧐

Parallelity
The novelist and the historian had equally important roles to play in understanding our past, but they travelled on separate roads toward the truth.

The heart
«Thou customs and ways of living changes, 
as times leaps, and human belief changes,
thinking otherwise on many issues... 
the human HEART will never ever change.
― Sigrid Undset, a Norwegian Nobel lauriat and author. 
The closing words, from «King Arthur and The Knights of the Round Table»

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In Norwegian:

Ein skulle ha levd før, og ein skulle ha levd no🧐
Ukjend

￼Melankoli er som å gå på bunnen av en stor hemmelighet.
― Kari Bremnes, songskrivar og musikar

Eg trur veldig på musikkens universelle språk og kraft
― Sigrid Moldestad, songskrivar og folkemusikar

Musikk gjev ei sjel til universet, 
vengjer til sinnet, fly til fantasien og liv til alt."
― Plato.

Hjarta
«Ti sed og skikk forandres meget, alt som tidene lider, og menneskenes tro forandres og de tenker annerledes om mange ting. Men menneskenes HJARTE forandres aldeles intet i alle dage.»

(Sitat, avsluttingsorda i «Kong Artur og ridderne av det runde bord»)
― Sigrid Undset, forfattar

Om Kristin Lavransdatter
“Sigrid Undset skildret ikke Kristin Lavransdatter, men Sigrid Ingvalddatter. Hennes middelalderske Gudbrandsdal var et 1900-talls Frogner i forkledning. Det var nedlatende ment. Men det er vanskelig å komme unna at det uansett nødvendigvis er vår egen tids briller vi ser når vi fascinert forsøker å kikke under historiens skjørtekanter.” 
― Georg Johannesen, forfattar/professor/kritikar

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Hemmeligheter

Jeg synes at mennesker skulle ha flere hemmeligheter for hverandre ... Vi skulle holde mer kjeft og heller gå til jordbærstedene i stedet for å snakke dem ihjel.

Kari Bremnes, f 1956,visesanger/musiker/låtskriver

Visste du at: 
Bremnes er kanskje mest kjent for sin norske versjon av Cohen’s «Everybody knows»
(«Alle vet jo det»). 
Hun fikk sitt store gjennombrudd i 1986 med albumet «Mitt ville hjerte». Siden har hun mottatt en rekke priser og etablert seg som en av landets fremste kvinnelige sangere, tekstforfattere og melodiskapere.

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- Dersom en investeringsidé ikke kan bli forklart på tre setninger, er det ikke en god investering. Kan du ikke det, så finn noe annet.
                                 Julian Robertson, Investor
                             Founder of Tiger Management


Ref. Andreas Halvorsen ,Viking Global,              Greenwich,Connecticut.

Argentinian composer and multimedia artist based in L.A.

Esencia - Oberlin New Music Ensemble, conducted by Tim Weiss

Carolina Heredia composer