WORK INFORMATION

Five Memos

    INFORMATION

  • Composer: Carlos Sánchez-Gutiérrez
  • Country: México
  • Format/s: Sextet or more
  • Instruments: Flute, Clarinet, Violin, Cello, Piano, Percussion
  • Movements: I. Esattezza / II. Gli Uccelini del Signor Tic-Tac / III. Legerezza / IV. Rapiditá / V. Molteplicit
  • Year of composition: 2010
  • Approximate duration: 15:00
  • Description: The five movements of this piece, “Esattezza”, “Gli Uccelini del Signor Tic-Tac”, “Legerezza”, “Rapiditá”, and “Molteplicitá”, were written—more or less consciously— in response to the “values” proposed by Italo Calvino in his well-known “Six Memos for the Next Millennium”. Lightness, speed, visibility, exactness and multiplicity are qualities that have pulled me to appreciate art for as long as I can remember. They are the values that make me listen to Mozart and Donatoni, look at Morandi and Klee, or read Murakami and Potocki. Like Calvino, I prefer art that raises above the weight of the world. I also favor direct, clear, visible gestures that, while mysterious, speak to me with precision and assertiveness. I like the precarious line that separates drama from comedy, and celebrate the fact that an author can make a hat become the main protagonist of a funeral with the magic touch of a sudden gush of wind. I am a somewhat chaotic thinker, and my impatience (which I would hardly describe as a value) makes me gravitate around a narrative that is fast, direct, terse, and to the point, and whose intensity is multifaceted, like the ecstatic anguish felt by a soccer fan before the execution of a penalty kick…
  • Commissioned by: Comisionada por la Fromm Music Foundation para el ensamble Eighth Blackbird y el Look + Listen Festival.

    • PREMIERE DATA

  • Premiere date: 07/05/2010
  • Premiere performers: El ensamble Eighth Blackbird
  • Premiere information: Look + Listen, Contemporary Music Festival. New York.

    • MORE INFORMATION

  • Location: Contactar al compositor a través de su correo electrónico: carlossg@esm.rochester.edu
  • Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhcwiCsIjqk
  • Additional Information: https://www.carlossg.com/five-memos-2010