JoyeuxAnniversaireMaman

Aurai "Αυραι"
by Danaë Xanthe Vlasse

Dédié à ma mère, Claire Vlasse, à l'occasion de son 80ème anniversaire, le 16 novembre 2024.

Les AURAI (prononcé « Avreh ») de l'Antiquité grecque étaient des nymphes de la brise. Elles étaient filles soit de la rivière Okeanos (Océanus) qui encercle la terre, soit du Boreas, au vent du nord. Les 5 premières mesures de cette pièce font écho à la plus ancienne mélodie connue - "l'Hymne Hurrien" (1400 av. J.-C.), puis la mélodie évolue au fur et à mesure que la brise souffle... c'est une représentation allégorique de l'idée que la musique a été transportée dans le les vents du temps à travers les millénaires.

Aurai dans la littérature :
Homère, Odyssée 4. 561 ff (trad. Shewring) (épopée grecque 8e av. J.-C.) :
"La fin du monde, les champs Elysées... [là] pour le rafraîchissement des hommes, Okeanos envoie continuellement les brises chantantes de l'ouest (aetai zephyroio)."

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Dedicated to my mother, Claire Vlasse, on the occasion of her 80th Birthday, Nov 16th 2024.

AURAI (pronounced "Avreh") of Greek antiquity were nymphs of the breeze. They were daughters of either the earth-encircling river Okeanos (Oceanus) or the north-wind Boreas. The first 5 measures of this piece echo the oldest known melody - the "Hurrian Hymn" (1400 BCE), and then the melody evolves while the breeze blows... this is an allegorical representation of the idea that music has been carried in the winds of time across millennia.

Aurai in literature:
Homer, Odyssey 4. 561 ff (trans. Shewring) (Greek epic C8th B.C.):
"The world's end, the Elysian fields . . . [there] for men's refreshment Okeanos (Oceanus) sends out continually the high-singing breezes of the west (aetai zephyroio)."

Performers:

Sangeeta Kaur & Hilá Plitmann, Sopranos
Robert Thies & Danaë Xanthe Vlasse, Piano (4 hands)

String Quartet:
Kerenza Peacock & Maya Magub, Violins
Virginie d’Avezac de Castéra, Viola
Charlie Tyler, Cello

Choir: Sterling Ensemble, conducted by Dr. Michelle Jensen

Danaë Xanthe Vlasse, Percussion (wind chimes & orchestral chimes)

Engineering:
Gerhard Joost (recording and mix engineer)
Chaz Sexton (assistant)

Recording Studios:
East West Studios, Los Angeles
Studio Hill, Austin

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