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Title of the work

Sideways Air on a Black Hole

Composer
Csapó Gyula
Original / Hungarian title
Oldal´zó ária, fekete lyukon
Foreign language / English title
Sideways Air on a Black Hole
Subtitle
Konzertstück
Dedication
to Csaba Klenyán
Year of composition
2002
Type
Instrumental solo
Number of players
1
Instrumentation
cl.
Duration
0 min
Movements, parts
One movement
Publisher / Source
Editio Musica Budapest © 2005, Z. 14471
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Remarks, other info
"As if we could only walk sideways in a tilted force field, Petruska-Harlequin in my piece evokes waltz fragments on a capsized ´Titanic´, or Berlioz´s Romeo und Juliet. Vertiginous chromatic martellato-staccato sequences keep tearing apart the clarinet´s virtuosic aerial gymnastics interspersed among the fragments and half-heard wisps of sound. We suddenly find ourselves now in the depths, now in the highest regions, sidelong, as if all these fragments of musical memories were dancing on the edge of the event-horizon of a black hole..."