“Stravinsky Homage” (`Stravinsky Smiles`) (2008) for accordion, piano and string orchestra

A piece composed using collage technic, whereas most of the actual material is taken from Stravinsky`s
works of different periods, but not only.. For more info please scroll down.

Score samples:

Performances:
01.03.08 World Premiere – Rappoport Auditorium, Haifa
w.Tel Aviv Soloists Orchestra under Barak Tal;
02.03.08 – Rekanati Hall, Tel- Aviv Art Museum;
04.03.08 – Marcus Rosenberg Hall, Music Department of Bar-Ilan University,
Ramat-Gan, Israel.

Listen to Stravinsky Smiles (movement 3)

Publications: IMC

Smile and laughter which is genuine and not just a mask – this is something found in its purest form in children. Children are easily fascinated with things and their form of communication with the world around them is game. In music it is only those composers that allowed themselves to remain a child, always fascinated anew with this game of assembling sounds and ideas together just like a child playing Lego,  that have also allowed themselves to laugh in their music. Sometimes they laugh at us – their listeners, sometimes at themselves, and sometimes they invite us to join their game by throwing ideas or musical riddles to us, which will only make a sense if we make a sense out of them, if we join the game.
Stravinsky is no doubt one of those composers that challenge us with such games and whose fascination with constructing his Lego infects and charges us with a tremendous creative impulse. We just could not resist accepting the challenge and join his marvelous game. We play the Lego with Stravinsky, with his music and we feel that he is laughing. Is he laughing at us or with us? Probably both. Be it as it may, we feel pretty sure that this game conform to Stravinsky’s spirit – spirit of everlasting search for new and unknown, spirit of fascination with Music, spirit of the eternal Game, full of smiles.