Basic information
| Composer |
Haapanen, Perttu |
| Duration |
18 min. |
| Year of composition |
2007 |
| First performance (year) |
2007 |
| First performance (venue) |
Musica nova, Helsinki |
| First performance (performers) |
Helena Juntunen, soprano, Dmitri Slobodeniouk, condactor, Avanti! Chamber Orchestra |
| Submitter |
Uusinta Chamber Ensemble |
| Publisher |
FIMIC |
| Conductor |
Obligatory |
| Soloist(s) |
soprano, |
Instruments
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Musicians |
1st player |
2nd player |
| Violin | 4 | | |
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| Viola | 2 | | |
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| Cello | 2 | | |
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| Double-bass | 1 | 4-string | |
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| Flute |
1 |
C
Piccolo
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| Oboe |
1 |
Oboe
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| Clarinet |
1 |
B-flat
Bass
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| Bassoon |
1 |
Bassoon
Contrabassoon
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| Horn (F) |
1 |
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| Trumpet |
1 |
C
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| Trombone |
1 |
Tenor
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Musicians |
Instruments |
| Percussion |
1 |
Chimes
Bass Drum
Cymbals
Tamtam
Tom-Toms
Temble Blocks
Other
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| Harp |
1 |
- |
| Keyboard |
1 |
Piano
Celeste
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| Other instruments and playing techniques |
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Equipment |
| Sound electronics |
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| Visuals |
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Notes
| Programme notes |
Ladies' Room (2007, rev 2008)
Ladies' Room is a song cycle for soprano and chamber orchestra. The texts of the songs are from the Bible, search engine Google (re-composed and manipulated by the composer), the Scotland Yard Archives, by Jutta Seppinen and Paul Celan (trans. by Jukka Koskelainen). Individual songs are separated by ”4 hommages à Adolf Wölfli”. These interludes are inspired by texts (like Trauermarsch -poems) of Adolf Wölfli, who was Swiss schitzophrenic artist at around the turn of the 20th century. A subject around the texts is amnesia (conscious or unconscious, personal or collective) and its reflections (such as fear, hate, supression) on society and on individuals.
The soloist represents a variety of different personalities through the texts, who also have different attitudes on the subject. Compared to Arnold Schönberg's Erwartung, the way how music deals with the texts is not expressionistic, neither ”Freudian”. I would rather describe the way of the setting of the texts as ”anti-Freudian”.
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| Additional notes |
Text by Seppinen, Haapanen, Celan and others (in Finnish)
Commissioned by the Musica nova Helsinki
Dedicated to the memory of Kim Wuorela-Stenberg
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