Rebekah Driscoll

La traición de las imágenes

Year: 2013

Duration (in minutes): 18

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: larger chamber ensembles - more than 4 players, solo voice(s) with chamber ensemble

Instruments: any female voice, any medium voice, any string, any voice, any woodwind, contrabass, flute, mezzo soprano, piano, viola

Publisher: Rebekah Driscoll Music

Publisher website: http://www.rebekahdriscoll.com/music/la-traicion-de-las-imagenes/

MP3 STREAM: https://soundcloud.com/rebekah-driscoll/el-parque-del-buitre

Video Links: https://youtu.be/zhN0vNIOjLQ

Description: This song cycle is my response to eight surrealist works by René Magritte, whose famous The Treachery of Images highlights the impossibility of art to truly reflect reality. Magritte described his creations as “images which conceal nothing [and] evoke mystery… [they do] not mean anything, because mystery means nothing either; it is unknowable.” I have tried to capture the same spirit of mystery in both the words and the music.
(The Soundcloud link is the 3rd movement, video is the 7th movement.)