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- Du Yun
Zolle (2005)
- G Schirmer Inc (World)
A Cockroach's Tarantella and Zolle may be performed as an evening-length diptych.
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- Narrator, Female Voice, Tenor
- 55 min
- the composer
Programme Note
Composer note
In Zolle (It., big chunk of earth), a dead woman is a land-watcher. She wanders through the shadowy space between memory and reality, tracing the lines of her identity through the land she once walked: an immigrant in death as in life. In her haunted travels between the worlds of life and the afterlife, she is unable to choose between the living and the dead, at a loss to let go of either. Finally, with her sorrows, solitudes, and peacefulness, she lets go of both, turning into a part of the earth.
— Du Yun
Scores
Reviews
In the wild but always harmonious mix of styles, the most striking are the historicising passages, the pseudo-Italian arias and the baroque madrigal. For it is these sounds, which are actually familiar to our ears, sounds that seem strange in the musical landscape and translate the melancholy of the lost soul into musical nostalgia.
