- Year of composition: 2013-14
- Duration: 19:23
- Instrumentation: saxophone quartet and system
- Publisher(s): Ymx média
- Commission: Quasar, with support from the CCA
- ISWC: T9191417739
Stereo
ISRC CAA4J1610001
- 44,1 kHz, 16 bits
«Et je me demandais si je veillais ou si je dormais, — si c’étaient les pâleurs de la lune ou de Lucifer, — si c’était minuit ou le point du jour!»
«Mais bientôt mon oreille n’interrogea plus qu’un silence profond.» — Aloÿsius Bertrand, Gaspard de la nuit: fantaisies à la manière de Rembrandt et de Callot (1842)
So much beauty surrounds us, when we give it time! Often, it emerges from a simple meeting and goes unnoticed. At a second glance, it yields its deeper nature, replete with subtleties and richness. Such nuances appear to us when we allow ourselves to contemplate the moon!
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Premiere
- March 26, 2014, Quasar • De souffles et de machines, Music Multimedia Room — Pavillon de musique Elizabeth Wirth — Université McGill, Montréal (Québec)
Awards
Performers
- Quasar (Marie-Chantal Leclair, soprano saxophone; Mathieu Leclair, alto saxophone; André Leroux, tenor saxophone; Jean-Marc Bouchard, baritone saxophone)