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series on 2007-08-05 01:58:59 |
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'Series' grew from things that I observed in 1967 when I was composing this poem. Things that struck me as vivid & memorable I put down on paper like word sketches. Mussorgsky's 'Pictures at an Exhibition' comes to mind as the model. He wrote that score after going to the opening of an exhibition of paintings at an art gallery. He even wrote 'promenade, for leisurely walking from one painting to the next. Mussorgsky wrote his original piece for piano & Ravel orchestrated the version that is played at concerts.
I also wanted to convey what I had observed from a young age that people often miss what is going on. People talk a lot but often do not really say anything much. They are lost in a waking nightmare. In fact a lot of what is said unless it is important to you the listener is in fact background noise, sometimes distracting & annoying. The little girl in the final illustration swinging on the door is in her own world. She is paying attention completely to what she is doing. She is living in the moment, 'stubbornly involved.'
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