110901 for percussion solo (and speaker ad lib.) (op. 107d, 2001)
Percussion (and speaker ad lib.)
Duration: 8 minutes
Andrea Schneider | Rainer Kretschmann
Title: 110901 für Schlagzeug Solo op. 107d / 110901 für Schlagzeug Solo op. 107d - Length: 3 pages / 3 pages (with inserted text) - Date: - / - - Location: Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Munich
Zimmermann Musikverlag Frankfurt ZM 34620 / ISMN: M-010-34620-5
Black Tuesday
11 September 2001
I
Shattering the myth
of omnipotence.
Iron-winged terror in the
in the heart of the world capital.
Manhattan shaken to the core.
Mass death in the wake of bright madness.
II
Open-mouthed petrified
the world, naked with fear,
speech is lost.
For the blink of an eye.
The stock markets howl
and brokers weep at the
the nosedive of share prices.
Sharks turn the
the oil price screw.
The president speaks:
Government and financial business
continue.
III a
Resolute mourning between
profit and loss.
The free world sends flowers.
Stunned and innocent white
lament the horror of evil.
III b
As if the vipers of
religious madness never sat at the table
sat at the table of the good
in the haggle for power and oil.
Half-mast flies the arrogance
of capital.
IV
And now? Forward to the Middle Ages?
Wars of faith in the name of the gods?
Wall Street against Babylon?
Rainer Taudin
© 2002 by Musikverlag Zimmermann, Frankfurt am Main
The suggestion to artistically process and comment on the events of 11 September 2001 came from Cornelia Großmann. The thought-provoking text "Black Tuesday" by Reiner Taudin, which I found by chance in the magazine "Der Gesundheitsberater", seemed very suitable for a musical realisation. So 110901 for speaker and percussion was written in November 2001.
Bertold Hummel
The introduction leads to a first chord cluster, which is followed by the first text passage. A second chord builds up, followed by the second text passage. The vibraphone determines the sound of the middle section with the third text insertion and brings the final text passage with its three questions to a close. This is followed by a short instrumental summary of the musical material. In the coda, the first seven notes of the Bach chorale "O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden" are quoted. The work fades away in the extreme pianissimo.
(Introductory text by Bayerischer Rundfunk 2002)