Moll, opéra lilliput pour six roches molles
Marcelle Deschênes
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1Moll, opéra lilliput pour six roches molles (1976) Pierre Langevin, clarinets; Réjean Marois, trombones; René Joly, percussion, toys; Raynald Lévesque, percussion, toys; Robert Pelletier, percussion, toys; Robert Leroux, percussion, toys22:55
Programme notes
To our “fleeting body, neither lasting nor stone” (Roger Caillois)
A transposition of children’s dreams of sea, earth and sky from a research project in music teaching (Université Laval, 1975), this suite of 17 miniatures is the result of long, obsessive hours spent looking at the ordinary gray pebbles found on the Bas-Saint-Laurent beaches.
No one knows quite why, but the fascinating force of the Origins and memories of a lost paradise rule the tiny world of pebbles and grains of dust. All these forgotten, undecipherable signs look strangely like the sea, the stars, an insect, the red moon, the mountain, the thunderstorm, human dramas, and abstract points, lines and spirals. The wonders of children
— Marcelle Deschênes [English translation
Moll, opéra lilliput pour six roches molles [Moll, Lilliput Opera for Six Soft Rocks] was realized in 1976 in the studio of the Université Laval (Québec City) and premiered on March 18, 1976 at McGill University’s Pollack Hall in Montréal by the Société de musique contemporaine du Québec (SMCQ). It had been commissioned by the SMCQ with support from the Canada Council for the Arts (CCA). Thanks to Stéphane Clark for the dreamy narrative. Moll, opéra lilliput pour six roches molles won 1st prize (Mixed Works) at the Bourges International Electroacoustic Music Competition (France, 1978) and it was later awarded an Euphonie d’or in 1992 “as one of the twenty most significant works from two decades of the Bourges Awards.”
Premiere
- March 18, 1976, Concert 75, Salle Pollack — Pavillon Strathcona — Université McGill, Montréal (Québec)
Awards
- Prize, Euphonie d’or, Bourges International Electroacoustic Music Competition, Bourges (Cher, France)
- 1st prize, Mixed Electroacoustic Music Prize, 6th Bourges International Electroacoustic Music Competition 1978, Bourges (Cher, France)
About this sound recording
This recording was realized and mixed in 1978 by Jean Corriveau at Studio Jean Sauvageau in Montréal
- Composer(s): Marcelle Deschênes
- Year of composition: 1976
- Duration: 22:55
- Instrumentation: 2 clarinets, 3 trombones, 3 percussions sets, toys and stereo fixed medium
- Publisher(s): Ymx média
- Commission: SMCQ, with support from the CCA
- ISRC: CAD500619870
Movements
Le monde est une goutte d’eau et « Lucia di Lammermoog»
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Naissance des roches molles
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Puce: Zig!… Zig! Zig!… Tu es là?… Es-tu blessé? — Zig: Je ne crois pas. Je suis tombé sur une chose molle. [« Zig et Puce» ]
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Insectes secs — bâiller aux corneilles
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Étoile variable
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Insectes « amertubes» : boire la mer avec une paille
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Étoile double
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Jeu: vers une synchronisation
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Si by the Sea
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Sirènes
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J’ai perdu le si de ma clarinette
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Comme la lune se lève rouge (« Wozzeck» )
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Supernova et étoiles pulsantes
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Étoile du matin
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Vaisseaux fantômes
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London Bridge Is Falling Down
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Le monde est une bulle d’air
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