Damase Flute Etudes

Shop and Buy Etudes (25) sheet music. Flute sheet music book by Jean-Michel Damase (1928-): Editions Henry Lemoine at Sheet Music Plus. Damase - Published by Editions Henry Lemoine. Category: Flute Study Books Publisher: Editions Henry Lemoine Publisher's reference: HX24708 Our Stock Code: 966320. In particular, the Sonata en concert, for flute, cello and piano, and the Sonata for flute and harp were played and recorded world-wide. Jean-Michel Damase was often invited to perform his own works and to give masterclasses during festivals in Europe, the United States and Japan.

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Pascal Zavaro

Ask Pascal Zavaro about the references and inspiration generating or regenerating his music, and he may very well joke his way out by stating a fascinated search for a musical equivalent to Terry Gilliam’s Brazil. Adding that this phantasmagorical movie, with its world of poorly maintained machines and monster flex ducts, reflects a broken and heartbreaking humanity, and that his music is boosted by all the slapstick energy and bitterness.

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He could also mention Austrian moviemaker Ulrich Seidl’s Import/Export, a movie that is “a dark, bleak vision of our modern world, showing us what survives of a crushed yet struggling humanity”. If we add sculpture and painting to these influences (Zavaro’s father is a renowned painter), his frequent references to César, Tinguely or Francis Bacon will definitely not appear as mere name-dropping pose. Bacon’s distorted, off-balance figures inspired him Three studies for a crucifixion, for chamber orchestra. When the piece was premiered at Radio-France in 2004, a carried-away audience was swaying along to its outbursts of wistful swing. For Zavaro’s music is something you feel. It has a tactile quality. It is a beat pulse, the echo of a dance (hear this fleeting boogie rhythm? hear that bit of mambo?), the itching of a battery of rhythms,...