Edgar Allan Poe
flute (also alto flute, piccolo, bass flute), tenor saxophone (also alto saxophone), clarinet (also bass clarinet), trumpet, trombone, percussionist, piano, violin, second violin, viola, cello, double bass
Belgique, Bruxelles, La Raffinerie, Ars Musica 2012
Charlotte Hellekant : mezzo-soprano, United Instruments of Lucilin, direction : Toshio Hosokawa.
When I read The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe, it reminded me of the Japanese Noh play. A view of the world in the Noh is not anthropocentric. Some of the main characters in the Noh are animals and plants, and some are unearthly spirits. Poe describes the process of the collapse of the modern rational world, as a consequence of an invasion of the world by a weird animal ‘raven’ which lives in the other world. I considered this poem as a story of Noh and expressed it in the form of monodrama with mezzo-soprano and ensemble.
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