{"id":1991,"date":"2020-03-01T15:48:16","date_gmt":"2020-03-01T15:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/luisnaon.com\/?p=1991"},"modified":"2025-02-17T13:24:31","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T13:24:31","slug":"3-new-york-blues-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/luisnaon.com\/en\/3-new-york-blues-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"3 New York Blues (2011)"},"content":{"rendered":"

For mezzosoprano and ensemble.<\/b><\/p>\n

With projection of auditory and visual images regarding <\/span>New York City<\/i><\/b> on texts from <\/span>Walt Whitman<\/b> and <\/span>Edgar Allan Poe.<\/b><\/p>\n

Commissioned by Radio France<\/span><\/p>\n

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3 New York Blues<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The composition is based on a strange bet: to write about a city I had never been to. The idea of New York \u201cblues\u201d is not less strange for me. This situation allowed me to have a faraway vision, detached from that city.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The research about the possible texts to set music to led me, away from the city, to texts by Lorch, and due to successive rebounds to Whitman and later to Poe.<\/span><\/p>\n

The weave of the work oscillates between the midnight voices of the poets in opposition to force,\u00a0 frenzy and the violent verticality of the city.<\/span><\/p>\n

With Diego Pittaluga, producer of the video that \u201caccompanies\u201d the composition, we have presented a frame that allows us to focus on the music, and certainly not to the narrative plot because it would have resulted redundant. These images are at the same time the scenery and a tangible reference to objects that appear, veiled, within the music.<\/span><\/p>\n

The voice of Sylvia Vadimova, that is lyrical but can easily and voluptuously take the character of the \u201cblues\u201d, has been one of the conditions for writing this composition.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Concert in the Centquatre on 15th May 2011.
\n<\/span>Music: Luis Na\u00f3n – Orchestre Philharmonique of Radio France<\/span>