Works

Instrumentation (detailed)

Winds and Brass	Clarinet in Bb, Bass Clarinet, Soprano Saxophone, Alto Saxophone, Trumpet , Tenor Trombone
Percussion	Percussion
Keyboards	Piano
Strings (plucked / bowed)	Violin
Unspecified	tromp , Cello.

In this work, Race, I used a circus, parodic environment, as a frame to express what I feel in the face of some human behaviours: like the mixture of tragedy and ridicule, or simple joy mixed with hysteria, or the calm that comes from depression. It is music of extremes, where I did not contain my irony. I also gave in to abstraction, and punctuated the work with lighter passages carried by the flavour of timbre, harmony or the play between contrasting textures. Although I had no programmatic intentions, there is some theatricality inspired by the painting The Fight Between Carnival and Lent by Bruegel the Elder.

Eli Camargo Júnior, Vila Franca de Xira, Portugal, Winter of 2005