| 词条 | Prospero's Rooms |
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CompositionOn the inception and composition of the work, Rouse wrote in the score program notes:{{quote|In the days when I would have still contemplated composing an opera, my preferred source was Edgar Allan Poe's 'Masque of the Red Death.' A marvelous story full of both symbolism and terror, it is only five pages long and would thus require 'padding' instead of the usual brutal cutting of the story. I had contemplated some sort of melding of the Poe story with Leonid Andreyev's symbolist play 'The Black Maskers.' However, I shall not be composing an opera, and so I decided to redirect my ideas into what might be considered an overture to an unwritten opera.[1]}} InstrumentationProspero's Rooms is scored for an orchestra comprising two flutes, piccolo, two oboes, cor anglais, two clarinets, bass clarinet, two bassoons, contrabassoon, four horns, three trumpets, three trombones, tuba, timpani, three percussionists, harp, and strings.[1]ReceptionReviewing the world premiere, Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim of The New York Times praised Prospero's Rooms, saying, "In Mr. Rouse’s atmospheric work, the story is told with dreamlike speed — 10 minutes from the cadaverous contrabassoon line that opens over quiet string rumblings to the final terrifying crash. Poe’s ball takes place in a sequence of monochrome rooms and the music had a strong sense of motion and spaces being entered and left behind, as well as colors that sometimes seemed eerily disembodied from the instruments that produced them."[5] George Hall of The Guardian called the work "unmemorable," but nevertheless complimented it as "a lively, if frenetic, piece of orchestral writing."[6] See also
References1. ^1 2 Rouse, Christopher (2011). Prospero’s Rooms: Program Note by the Composer. Retrieved April 14, 2015. {{Italic title}}{{Christopher Rouse}}2. ^{{cite web |title=Alan Gilbert, Christopher Rouse and Joshua Bell |work=WQXR-FM |date=May 2, 2013 |url=http://www.wqxr.org/#!/story/290107-alan-gilbert-christopher-rouse-and-joshua-bell/ |accessdate=April 14, 2015}} 3. ^{{cite web |last=Levere |first=Jane |title=New York Philharmonic To Perform All-American Program With Joshua Bell And Christopher Rouse Premiere |work=Forbes |date=April 17, 2013 |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/janelevere/2013/04/17/new-york-philharmonic-to-perform-all-american-program-with-joshua-bell-and-christopher-rouse-premiere/ |accessdate=April 14, 2015}} 4. ^http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05qyxvj 5. ^{{cite web |last=Fonseca-Wollheim |first=Corinna da |title=Nimbly Chasing That Winged Target |work=The New York Times |date=April 18, 2013 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/19/arts/music/new-york-philharmonic-at-avery-fisher-hall.html |accessdate=April 14, 2015}} 6. ^{{cite web |last=Hall |first=George |title=BBCSO/Nesterowicz/Osborne review – Rouse's overture is lively but unmemorable |work=The Guardian |date=April 27, 2015 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/apr/27/bbcso-nesterowicz-review-thrilling-lutoslawski-beethoven-rouse |accessdate=April 30, 2015}} 5 : Compositions by Christopher Rouse|2011 compositions|21st-century classical music|Compositions for symphony orchestra|Music commissioned by the New York Philharmonic |
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