Paradiso

by Cecilia Damström

for wind band

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Cecilia Damström

Paradiso

Music Finland

Description

After visiting Berlin in 2012 I have been enjoying to “transcribe” dance and trance music into such a form that it can be played on classical instruments, as well as experimenting how I can get the drive and timbre of this type of popular music infusioned into a classical context. Paradiso for wind band is my most extensive experiment within this field so far.

Paradiso begins more or less as any club music, but the theme is taken from my earlier sacral choral piece “Min Gud”, the theme that goes along with the words “My God, my God, why have Thou forsaken me?”. Suddenly the party piece starts to fall slowly apart, melting into one single note (f#) from where everything starts again, but inversed and reversed, an almost perfect palindrome. The piece is a description of today’s human being, so busy with all the hurries of the daily life, repeating his routines day by day without ever questioning what the meaning is of it all. First when everything is falling apart will you notice how little sense everything makes and how the simple things actually are the things that matter. But even after that you have had “life changing revelations”, will it really change you? Or will you just fall back in to your old track and routines, which just seem (and are?) as absurd if not more, than before? And is there time for God in an ever faster spinning world, or has it become a God forsaken place? In Paradiso a religious piece becomes a party anthem, and the name Paradiso is inspired by a club on Ibiza (called Paradiso) where party is like a religion. Pure absurdity.

Malmö, 6th of March 2015

Cecilia Damström


Instrumentation

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Category

Works for Wind Orchestra


Opus no.

op. 36


Premiere

Swedish Wind Ensemble, conducted by Michael Bartosch. May 29, 2015. Musikaliska, Stockholm.


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Archive number

MF32797


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