Joji Yuasa (1929-2024)

Mutterings (1988)

for soprano (or mezzo-soprano) and seven players

  • General information
    • Composition date: 1988
    • Duration: 12 mn
    • Publisher: Schott, nº LSJ 4598-01
    • Libretto (details, author):

      texte de Ronald David Laing

Detailed formation
  • soloist: soprano
  • flute (also piccolo, alto flute), clarinet (also bass clarinet), timpani, percussionist, piano, guitar [amplifiée] , violin (also viola), cello

Premiere information

  • Date: 31 July 1988
    Location:

    Danemark, Lerchenborg, Lerchenborg Music ‘88


    Performers:

    Bodil Gumoes, soprano; The Elsinore Players ; Karl Aage Rasmussen, direction

Table of contents

I. Erratically “I couldn’t believe it…”
II. Loosely “Do y’know what I mean…”
III. Confidently “What am I going on…”
IV. Under obsession “No thinking no no thinking…”
V. Catastrophe “My neck is on the guillotine…”