{"id":4760,"date":"2015-07-01T19:37:18","date_gmt":"2015-07-01T19:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelwinn.org\/?p=4760"},"modified":"2015-10-31T18:31:25","modified_gmt":"2015-10-31T18:31:25","slug":"my-charter-purpose-in-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelwinn.org\/tu-maltido-amor\/2015\/07\/01\/my-charter-purpose-in-life\/","title":{"rendered":"A Purpose In Life &#038; Sonata 111"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">I came to this planet as an agent of Grace. I&#8217;m an artist. I use images, gestures, words, objects, sounds, music, dance, performance, events using skills of observation and expression to celebrate the beautiful, sometimes unlikely or disguised. I value freedom, for beauty lives in the eyes of beholders and so, beauty is granted by free observation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Gesture 111\u00a0\u00a0&#8211; An Adaptation of L.V. Beethoven&#8217;s Opus 111<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/213299707&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;visual=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div>Work proceeding at this writing as I score Sonata (or Sonnet) 111.\u00a0 I&#8217;m sure to change the last part and I envision unconventional staging I must describe ( while this should work well with conventional orchestra resources for some performances).<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>By way of inceptional background:<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;reading Thomas Mann\u2019s,\u00a0 <i>Dr. Faustus<\/i>, written in Munich in 1943 , under aerial bombardment by the allies, it&#8217;s a fictional biography of a composer in Germany at the turn of the century and through WWI, a time when autonomous music was in the ritual of life, love and religion for the bourgeois culture. Mann knew music. Between Mann&#8217;s\u00a0 <em>Faustus<\/em> and Philip Radcliffe&#8217;s <em>Beethoven&#8217;s String Quartets (1965),<\/em> I saw a continuity from before Palestrina, through, Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Wagner, Mahler&#8230; Schoenberg. The thesis of <em>Dr. Faustus <\/em>is an extraordinary statement about dehumanization of human beings through culture. Mann&#8217;s story draws a distinction about the satanic: in suppressing expressions of our animal nature, bourgeois spirituality makes nature evil. Mann&#8217;s man makes a deal with nature, such that he creates a monumental work in music in exchange for his soul.<\/p>\n<div>Examining Opus 111 sonata #32 led me to experiment in this piece with Beethoven&#8217;s rhythmic sensibility in musical ideas, motives, etc., that we hear in pieces by Bach, Vivaldi, Mendelsohn, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, and so on. In <em>Dr. Faustus,<\/em>\u00a0Sonata #32 is deconstructed to draw a distinction about the nature of freedom and the premise that creation requires transformation, \u00a0when\u00a0a form\u00a0becomes\u00a0another form. Piano Sonata #32, Op. 111 was described in Beethoven&#8217;s time as the epitome and final statement of what is possible in sonata.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Michael<\/div>\n<div>July 7, 2015<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came to this planet as an agent of Grace. I&#8217;m an artist. I use images, gestures, words, objects, sounds, music, dance, performance, events using skills of observation and expression to celebrate the beautiful, sometimes unlikely or disguised. I value freedom, for beauty lives in the eyes of beholders and so, beauty is granted by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelwinn.org\/tu-maltido-amor\/2015\/07\/01\/my-charter-purpose-in-life\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Purpose In Life &#038; Sonata 111<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwinn.org\/tu-maltido-amor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwinn.org\/tu-maltido-amor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwinn.org\/tu-maltido-amor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwinn.org\/tu-maltido-amor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwinn.org\/tu-maltido-amor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4760"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwinn.org\/tu-maltido-amor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4917,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwinn.org\/tu-maltido-amor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4760\/revisions\/4917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwinn.org\/tu-maltido-amor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwinn.org\/tu-maltido-amor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwinn.org\/tu-maltido-amor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}