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BLUE, YELLOW, SMOKE
for chamber orchestra
Duration:
10 minutes
Instrumentation:
2 flutes (2nd doubles piccolo), 2 oboes (2nd doubles English Horn) 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 2 horns, 2 trumpets, 1 percussion, harp, strings
Year Composed:
2022
Written for:
Avner Biron and and The Israel Camerata Jerusalem
Commissioned by:
The Israel Ministry of Culture and Sport
Premiere Performance:
6 January, 2023
Tel Aviv, Israel
The Israel Camerata Jerusalem
Avner Biron, conductor
ukrainian conflict music
Program Notes:
There are musical compositions written according to a specific visual image or structural form, or inspired by a poem or song; there are cases where drama draws the music into realms the composer might not have discovered on their own; and then there are instances, like in Blue, Yellow, Smoke, where a general, universal, and thus personal spirit permeates the music.
The piece was composed during the early days of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Again, images of war, again pain, again stories of tragedy mixed with tales of heroism. And all of this – through a screen – distant.
The music is very slow, static, as if looking down sorrowfully from above at all the horrors humanity has failed to learn to prevent, despite thousands of years of lessons from history.
"Blue, Yellow, Smoke" was commissioned and written for Avner Biron and the Jerusalem Camerata, with generous support from the Ministry of Culture and Sports.
