Tot l’enyor de demà

Wind orchestra

Year: 2019

Duration: 15 min

Commissioned by: Festival Ensems

Premiere: Banda Municipal de València. 14/04/2019 València, Palau de la Música.

Back in 1920, Joan Salvat-Papasseit concluded his famous text, Contra els poetes amb minúscula (Against the poets with a lowercase 'p'), with the following words:

English translation:

"I invite you, poets, to be future, that is, immortal. To sing today as if it were today. That you do not measure your verses, nor count them on your fingers, nor charge money for them. We live always anew. Tomorrow is always more beautiful than the past. And if you want to rhyme, you may rhyme: but be Poets, Poets with a capital 'P': proud, brave, heroic and above all, sincere."

Original:

“jo us invito, poetes, a que sigueu futurs, és a dir, immortals. A que canteu avui com el dia d'avui. Que no mideu els versos, ni els compteu amb els dits, ni els cobreu amb diners. Vivim sempre de nou. El demà és més bell sempre que el passat. I si voleu rimar, podeu rimar: però sigueu Poetes, Poetes amb majúscula: altius, valents, heroics i sobretot sincers.”

This quote perfectly captures the approach and conceptualization of this work. The piece champions the music "of today" within the band genre by developing the concepts of space-time and the sound-figure. These two concepts merge into one, becoming both semantics and morphology.

The work's structure is built on the idea of linear time—divided into past, present, and and future—but it uses a perpetual, spiraling form that fluctuates between these different temporal dimensions. This is achieved through the treatment and transformation of the sound-figure within the space-time continuum.

The foundational idea and pre-compositional materials for this piece come from Joan Salvat-Papasseit's text, El poema de la rosa als llavis (The Poem of the Rose on the Lips). Ultimately, this is an instrumental sound expression that is born from a vocal one.

Photo of the Premiere: Banda Municipal de València. 14/04/2019 València, Palau de la Música.

Banda Municipal de València. 14/04/2019 València, Palau de la Música.