Vykintas Baltakas
*10.07.1972

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Vykintas Baltakas
about to drink dense clouds | for narrator, chamber ensemble and electronics

Work Details
Year of composition: 2003
Scored for: for narrator, chamber ensemble and electronics
Composer: Vykintas Baltakas
Text Source: recorded text by Sharon Joyce; narrated text: Simonides fragment, edited and translated by David A. Campbell
Text Author: Sharon Joyce
Original Language: Englisch
Translator: David A. Campbell
Parts: narrator
Instrumentation: fl(+picc), ob, cl(Eb), cl(Bb), tuba, perc, pno, vln(1), vla(1), cb(1), electronics
Duration (min): 7

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World Première
Location: Konzerthaus, Neuer Saal Wien / Austria
Date: 15.06.2003
Orchestra: Klangforum Wien
Conductor: Vykintas Baltakas
Main Soloists: Maria Harpner, Sprecherin
Work Introduction

There was a poem, an idea, a fragmented idea

a fragmented idea from ancient times,

so fragmented that not much of an idea is left,

but a torso.

The torso of an idea,

A torso by Simonides

... sky ... sea ... blast of black ...

empty both of men and (of Gods) ... goat-legged divinity!

...keeps [...]