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- Missy Mazzoli
Isabelle Eberhardt Dreams of Pianos (2007)
- G Schirmer Inc (World)
Commissioned and premiered by Kathleen Supové
- piano and pre-recorded electronics
- 9 min 30 s
- 23rd September 2026, (le) poisson rouge, New York, NY, United States of America
Programme Note
Isabelle Eberhardt was an explorer and writer who, at the beginning of the 20th century, abandoned a comfortable aristocratic life for a nomadic existence in North Africa. She was a liberated individual who rejected conventional European morality in favor of her own path. She died in a desert flash flood at the age of twenty-seven.
Isabelle Eberhardt Dreams of Pianos imagines her riding on horseback through the desert, lost in thought, remembering sounds and sensations of her old life. Fragments of Schubert's A Major Sonata pierce her consciousness and are quickly suppressed. In her fatigue she dreams of a piano half-buried in sand, a flash flood of sheet music swirling around her.
— Missy Mazzoli
Isabelle Eberhardt Dreams of Pianos imagines her riding on horseback through the desert, lost in thought, remembering sounds and sensations of her old life. Fragments of Schubert's A Major Sonata pierce her consciousness and are quickly suppressed. In her fatigue she dreams of a piano half-buried in sand, a flash flood of sheet music swirling around her.
— Missy Mazzoli
Media
As performed by Shai Wosner