Composer and PhD researcher at the FCSH/ Kunstuniversität Graz/ Fondazionne Archivio Luigi Nono and member of the Concrète [Lab] Ensemble, João Quinteiro is In Focus on MIC.PT in March.
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Work based on a verse by J. R. R. Tolkien that is in the
Red Book being the authorship of this attributed to Bilbo Baggins. The conceptual idea is according to the assumptions of the Renaissance counterpoint, thus realizing a supposed historical contextualization of the two worlds. Yet the work remains instrumental.
Lino Guerreiro
Instrumentation
Musical Category Solo
Instrumentation (general) marimba
Program Notes
When winter first begins
to bite
"The wind so whirled a weathercock
He could not hold his tail up;
The frost so nipped a throstlecock
He could not snap a snail up.
«My case is hard» the throstle cried,
And «All is vane» the cock replied;
And so they set their wail up.
J. R. R. Tolkien
Commission
Date 2018
Commissioning Body Marco Fernandes – percussionist