Program note (EN)
Drinking is based on a concept by Bill Brooks and “A Drinking Song” by W. B. Yeats:
“After Yeats is not a score for performance but rather a method for determining a score; it extends W. B. Yeats’s practice of poetic declamation to languages other than English. After Yeats describes a collaboration between a performer, who declaims a Yeats poem in translation, self-accompanied by a plucked string instrument, and a composer, who works at a remove to observe and amplify the implications of the declamation. Drinking is an independent instance of the meta-composition After Yeats.
Programkommentar (SE)
Drinking är baserat på ett koncept av Bill Brooks och “A Drinking Song” av W. B. Yeats:
“After Yeats is not a score for performance but rather a method for determining a score; it extends W. B. Yeats’s practice of poetic declamation to languages other than English. After Yeats describes a collaboration between a performer, who declaims a Yeats poem in translation, self-accompanied by a plucked string instrument, and a composer, who works at a remove to observe and amplify the implications of the declamation.”
