jeff zahos » performances http://www.jeffzahos.com music · sound · movement · jzahos@gmail.com Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:46:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 “Little Puppets’ Symphony” by Girolamo Deraco http://www.jeffzahos.com/2009/06/08/little-puppets-symphony-by-girolamo-deraco/ http://www.jeffzahos.com/2009/06/08/little-puppets-symphony-by-girolamo-deraco/#comments Tue, 09 Jun 2009 04:57:39 +0000 Jeff http://www.jeffzahos.com/?p=924 Continue reading →]]> During the Spring 2009 semester, Italian composer Girolamo Deraco was in residence at Truman State University.  I had the great privilege of performing on the premiere of two of his pieces (Nebula Picta for four players on one marimba and Little Puppets’ Symphony) and commissioning him to write a work for solo timpani (Thou for solo timpano).

Below you will see video of the premiere performance of his Little Puppets’ Symphony, a chamber work involving collaboration between music, dance and theatre, a feature of many of Deraco’s works.

The piece offers a peak in to the mysterious (and sometimes absurd!) process of creative invention, and is a bit of a wink of the eye in self-acknowledgement  of the composer’s own eccentricity.

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