(1985/rev. 2024)
- Commissioned by the Fund for the Creative Arts.
A score can be obtained through Donemus via this link.
World premiere: Holland Festival, June 30 1987 Concertgebouw by Lieuwe Visser, baritone and Robert Nasveld, piano.
A singer, a pianist, a sound text. Arm bells, headgear, tambourine. Footsteps. Muted piano notes, whistling, head voice. Whiskey glasses on the bass strings. A vase of flowers, a blanket, incomprehension: Imaginations 2.
Sources of inspiration: the Sonate in Urlauten by Kurt Schwitters, the piano music of Henry Cowell and George Crumb.
Have a look at the lyrics and listen to the pronunciation here.