Mike Svoboda (*1960)
Apples, Bees, and Ordnance (2017)
for alto saxophone, violoncello, and accordion
duration 18’
Apples, Bees, and Ordnance was written for the Trio SÆITENWIND with Karolina Öhman, violoncello, Olivia Steimel, accordion, and Jonas Tschanz, alto saxophone and commissioned by them with funding from the Fachausschuss Basel-Stadt/Baselland. The Trio SÆITENWIND gave the premiere performance in Basel, Switzerland on December 4th, 2017.
Program note
I often, but not always, hear music as sculpture, as a physical object which changes its form and viewing angel while listening. My most emotional musical moments are those relating to form and structure, rather than devolvement and tension-release. This phenomena is one of my greatest joys in music, but occurs only in absolute music – music without words or extramusical connotations – such as The Art of Fugue from J.S. Bach. My Apples, Bees, and Ordnance, written for the Trio SÆITENWIND, is a work in three movements and, as the title suggests, each
