Claude Vivier

"Pianists Melinda Faylor and Manon Hutton-DeWys and percussionist Fred Trumpy play Claude Vivier's Pulau Dewata at Greenwich House Music School, September 23, 2011.

A stay in Bali in 1976, marked a turning point in Claude Vivier's

career. Most of the subsequent works were to show the influence of

the atmosphere of this Pacific island, whose inhabitants call it the

"Island of the Gods," or Pulau Dewata. This is the title given by Vivier to a work specially dedicated to the people of Bali. The composer describes it as follows: "This piece is a succession of nine melodies of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 sounds. These modes may be directly reminiscent of Bali, but what I wanted to write was a piece imbued with the spirit of Bali: its dances, its rhythms and, above all, an explosion of life, simple and candid. The ending is the traditional signature of many Balinese pieces, a loving homage to this marvelous people from whom I learned so much." The score of Pulau Dewata is dedicated to the McGill Percussion Ensemble. It does not specify instrumentation, permitting any combination of instruments that suits the scoring.

Get Your Gamel-On! is a series of concerts presented by pianists Melinda Faylor and Manon Hutton-DeWys that explores all of the imaginative ways in which Indonesian Gamelan has been a source of inspiration to classical music, with an emphasis on works for the piano.

Pieces for the concerts are drawn from both the standard piano repertoire of Ravel and Debussy, and from the more contemporary works of Ligeti, John Adams, Lou Harrison, Claude Vivier, and John Cage.

In addition, these concerts include traditional and modern Indonesian music performed on authentic instruments, improvisation with Gamelan, toy piano music, music on invented instruments, commissioned works from emerging composers, modern Balinese-inspired
dance, and video."

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