Chuva Obliqua

Klaus Ib Jørgensen Chuva Obliqua (2009) for chamber ensemble Dur. 17’

Chuva Obliqua is the second work in the trilogy “An Encyclopedia of Rain” Text: Fernando Pessoa Commissioned by Aventa.

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Klaus Ib Jørgensen Chuva Obliqua (2009) for chamber ensemble Dur. 17’

POEM Slanting Rain The maestro waves his baton, And the sad, languid music begins...

It reminds me of my childhood, of a day I spent playing in my backyard, throwing a ball Against the wall... On one side of the ball Sailed a green dog, on the other side A yellow jockey was riding a blue horse...

The music continues, and on the white wall of my childhood That’s suddenly between me and the maestro The ball bounces back and forth, now a green dog, Now a blue horse with a yellow jockey...

My backyard takes up the whole theater, my childhood Is everywhere, and the ball starts to play music, A sad hazy music that runs around my backyard Dressed as a green dog turning into a yellow jockey...

(So quickly spins the ball between me and the musicians...)

I throw it at my childhood and it Passes through the whole theater that’s at my feet Playing with a yellow jockey and a green dog And a blue horse that looms above the wall Of my backyard... And the music throws balls At my childhood... And the wall is made of baton Movements and wildly whirling green dogs, Blue horses and yellow jockeys...

The whole theater is a white wall of music Where a green dog runs after my nostalgia For my childhood, a blue horse with a yellow jockey...

And from one side to the other, from right to left, From the trees where orchestras play music in the upper branches To the rows of balls in the shop where I bought my ball And the shopkeeper smiles amid the memories of my childhood...

And the music stops like a wall that collapses, The ball rolls over the cliff of my interrupted dreams, And on top of a blue horse the maestro, a yellow jockey turning black, Gives thanks while laying down his baton on a fleeing wall, And he takes a bow, smiling, with a white ball on top of his head, A white ball that rolls down his back out of sight...

8-iii-1914 Fernando Pessoa

(published in Fernando Pessoa, Forever Someone Else: Selected Poems, translated by Richard Zenith, Lisbon: Assírio & Alvim, 2009)

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INSTRUMENTATION Ensemble: Flute (alt. alto & piccolo) Clarinet in Bb (alt. bass carinet in Bb) French horn in F Trumpet in C Trombone Percussion (1 player): Vibraphone Crotales (2 octaves) Tubular bells 2 Bali Gongs (a1 & c2 Small splash cymbal Anvil Noisy trach can lid or similar metal item 2 woodblocks (small and very small and sharp) 1 temple block Log drum 5 tom-toms Piano Violin Viola Violoncello