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- Karel Husa
The Trojan Women (1980)
- Associated Music Publishers Inc (World)
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- 45 min
Programme Note
Composer note:
The Trojan Women, ballet for orchestra, was commissioned by the University of Louisville School of Music as part of it celebration year in its new building. The work was composed in 1980 in Ithaca, New York. Some of the few music devices we know about the old Greek music are used in the structure of the work, such as the Greek modes, tetrachords, quarter-tones and melodic lines. It is based on the play of Athenian Euripides (born approximately 484 B.C.) and deals with the horrors of the war, immense suffering, murdering of innocents, annihilation of freedom but also with the dignity of nobility of the captured women, awaiting their departure into slavery.
The ballet The Trojan Women is divided into an opening Prologue, five scenes, two interludes and a closing Epilogue. In the Prologue, fire is rising from the ruins of Troy.
--Karel Husa
The Trojan Women, ballet for orchestra, was commissioned by the University of Louisville School of Music as part of it celebration year in its new building. The work was composed in 1980 in Ithaca, New York. Some of the few music devices we know about the old Greek music are used in the structure of the work, such as the Greek modes, tetrachords, quarter-tones and melodic lines. It is based on the play of Athenian Euripides (born approximately 484 B.C.) and deals with the horrors of the war, immense suffering, murdering of innocents, annihilation of freedom but also with the dignity of nobility of the captured women, awaiting their departure into slavery.
The ballet The Trojan Women is divided into an opening Prologue, five scenes, two interludes and a closing Epilogue. In the Prologue, fire is rising from the ruins of Troy.
--Karel Husa
Media
The Trojan Women: I. Prologue
The Trojan Women: II. Cassandra
The Trojan Women: III. Lullaby
The Trojan Women: IV. Death of Astyanax
The Trojan Women: V. Hacuba's Lament - Fanfare - Epilogue
Reviews
Effective dramatic instincts, caustic aural commentary on some pretty tough storyline situations, and a genius for structure and its relationship to the essence of a musical line make this a work well worth your time, Husa at his finest.
1st January 2014
Discography
Music of Life
- LabelAblaze Records
- ConductorKimcherie Lloyd
- EnsembleUniversity Of Louisville Symphony Orchestra
- SoloistPaul York
- Released7th November 2011
- LabelPhoenix
- Catalogue NumberPHCD128
Karel Husa
- LabelFirst Edition
- Catalogue Number23
- ConductorAkira Endo
- EnsembleLouisville Orchestra