ENSEMBLE PHORMINX

Angelika Bender, flute
Thomas Löffler, clarinet
Alwyn Westbrooke, violin
Wolfgang Lessing, violoncello

PROGRAM NOTE(English)
My composition “Eloge” is a song of praise on the beauty of the invariable but continually changing elements of nature. The musical tension springs from the principal of insinuation and retrogression, as though one noticed a music in the distance that is repeatedly frayed by wind and restless surf. It is drowned out by new rhythms, constant or abrupt crescendos and diminuendos, reaching us like a light breeze. The form of the composition evolves from this concept of stagnation and change. The individual phrases intertwine within themselves and in a suspense of symmetry and asymmetry, whereby often the single polarisation must give way to ambiguity. At a certain point the music changes it’s direction and the composition closes in the retrogression of its begin. 

It remains to say, that this song of praise is less an apotheosis of impressionistic natural events but more a music with its origins in imaginary remembrances. The wish for untouched natural beauty as well as new social commitments collides with the experience of an offending reality. A feeling of inertia faces an increasing loss of form for a respectful survival.

PROGRAM NOTE (Korean)
작품 “Eloge”는 변함없는 아름다움에 대한 찬사를 위한 노래이지만 계속적으로 변화하는 본성을 가진 노래이기도 하다. 음악적 긴장감은 하나가 바람과 들썩이는 파도에 의해 반복적으로 닳아진 음악처럼 주요한 암시와 후퇴로부터 야기된다. 그 긴장감은 새로운 리듬, 일정하거나 또는 갑작스런 크리셴도와 디미뉴엔도에 의해 파묻히듯 남실바람처럼 우리에게 다가온다. 작곡의 형식은 정체와 변화의 컨셉으로부터 진화된다. 각각의 악구들은 그들 자신의 내부에서 대칭과 비대칭의 긴장감 안에서 엮이며 하나의 양극화는 모호성의 방법을 제공하여야 한다. 특정한 부분에서 음악은 그것의 방향을 변화시키고 작곡은 그 시작의 후퇴에서 닫힌다. 덧붙여 말하면 찬사의 이 노래는 전반적인 인상을 보여주는 자연적 현상의 극치보다 덜 하고 가상적인 추억에서 그것의 근원과 함께 더욱 음악적인 것이다. 훼손되지 않은 자연의 아름다움뿐만 아니라 새로운 사회적 약속도 문제의 현실과 상충한다. 무기력한 느낌은 경외한 생존을 위한 형식의 상실에 직면하고 있다.

Eloge

GRAMSCI - Opera for singers, orchestra and electronics by Cord Meijering, Libretto: Hans-Klaus Jungheinrich - a work in statu nascendi. 

GRAMSCI STUDIE 2 is a pre-study for exploring electronic software and sounds that later on will appear in the score. The study has been made with LOGIC PRO 9, ABSYNTH 5, Audacity.

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Gramsci Studie 2

The Dutch composer Cord Meijering was born in Esens, Germany in 1955, and lives now in Darmstadt. He studied guitar under Olaf Van Gonnissen, and composition under Johannes G. Fritsch and Dietrich Boekle. From 1983 to 1986 he was a member of Hans Werner Henze's master class; he then completed his studies as a master student under Hans Juergen Wenzel at the Academy of Arts in East-Berlin where he was awarded a stipend. 
In 1985 he received a prize at a composing competition in Stuttgart for his orchestral composition the voice of the winter. In 1987 he received a commen-dation at the inter-national composers' competition "Hambacher Preis" for the string trio "...bewegt..." ("...moved...") and in 1996 the "Bad Homburger Foerderpreis" for the composition Nights of 1990. In 1991 Meijering was awarded a scholarship by MacDowell Inc., New York for a stay at Peterborough, N.H. 
His compositions have been performed at Festival de Tardor Barcelona (Spain), at the Steirischer Herbst Graz (Austria), at the Festival d'Evian (Swizerland), at the Frankfurt Feste, at the Internationale Ferienkurse fuer Neue Musik Darmstadt (Germany), at the Guggenheim Museum New York, at the CrossSound Festival Juneau and Sitka (Alaska) and other places. 
Meijering wrote compositions for orchestra, chamber music, dance theater, film music (for Sharon Greytak's The Love Lesson, New York 1995, shown at the Museum of Modern Art, at Lincoln Center New York, Los Angeles Film Festival and other places). 
2004: World Premier of Tristitia for String Orchestra in Boston Mass., Jordan Hall - Metamorphosen Chamber Orchestra - conductor: Scott Yoo.
Guest lectures and colloquia at Harvard University Cambridge Mass. and Smith College Northampton Mass. USA. 
Cord Meijering is director of the Akademie für Tonkunst Darmstadt.


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