November 20th 2024 – 20:00-22:00

Piano recital for 4 hands, with Annie Kraus and Lynn Orazi

Musics by Clara Schumann, Marie Jaëll, Helen Buchholtz, Amy Beach, Germaine Tailleferre and No Time Anymore composed by Tatsiana Zelianko decidacted to Annie and Lynn.

In this piece, a ball is thrown in the piano. The ball represents the shot – the heavy spherical ball – at shot put. This element is a tribute to the olympics games of 2024 in Paris.
It represents the heavy weighted troubles that we are trying to throw away, to get rid of, but that come back.
The sphere is also an allegory of the planet Earth that we are silently letting down, until it hits the ground, here the strings of the piano, and generated a thunderous noise.
The noise is a complaint, is the complaint of the planet, thrown by us humans, when it reaches the ultimate point of failure.
The noise hurts as much as we hurt the Earth.
This piece founds its source, its inspiration in the recent news.
It is polythematic, with the Summer Olympics on a hand and the climate change on the other hand.
In my piece we collect the ball and restart. This represents the 3 catastrophes that the Earth survived with the Asteroid hitting the planet and eradicating the dinosaurs, the second being the industrial and post industrial era, exhausting the resources of the planet, generating that poisoning pollution, the third and ultimate being ahead of us if we don’t act.
The pianist says 3 times no time anymore, as for every catastrophe, every cataclysm, when noticed, it is too late to reverse the course of action, to stop the journey leading to the end of the know world.
The ball is also the heavy spherical ball at shot put.
Each athlete is entitled to 6 attempts. instead of measuring the distance at which the shot is put, the measurement is made by the thunderous sound generated when hitting the strings.
While the athlete heavily expires when throwing the shot, and very often shouts, it is replaced by the pianist voice no time anymore we are burning the score, with the same necessity as the athlete when putting. The score can be understood as the partition of course, but as well as the mark that the athletes reach.
The piece is polystylistic. It is inspired by and mixes the characteristics of the ancient music, namely the madrigals of Gesualdo, the neoclassical music and the tango.
The aim is to mix these styles to create a balanced mix, using the best of the bread of these universes.