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Música Temprana – Las Trampas del Tiempo

Time – Tuesday 19:00
Venue – Håkonshallen

Música Temprana
conducted by: Adrián Rodríguez Van der Spoel

Las Trampas del Tiempo - including the world premiere of Borealis festival commission by Cecilia Arditto, using texts by the 17th century poet and scholar Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz.

Juan de Araujo (1646, Spain – 1712, Bolivia) : 'Ruiseñor que en blandas armonías' 
Anonymous (Bogotá, Colombia) : 'Alto mis gitanas'
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Sebastián Durón (1660, Spain – 1716, France) : 'Duerme Rosa y descansa'
Juan de Araujo : 'Pues mi Rey ha nacido en Belén'
Antonio Durán de la Mota (1672, Bolivia – 1736, Bolivia) : 'Pasitico arroyuelos'
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Anonymous, Trujillo, Perú (ca.1780) : 'El Palomo'
Anonymous, Trujillo, Perú (ca.1780) : 'El Congo'
Santiago de Murcia (c.1682, Spain – c.1740, Mexico?) : 'Cumbée'
Anonymous, Trujillo, Perú (ca.1780) : 'La Lata'
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Anonymous, Spain, 17th c : 'A Flansico repuntiya'
Gaspar Fernandes, (c.1570, Portugal – 1629, Mexico) : 'Eso rigo re repente'

“The true picture of the past whizzes by. Only as a picture, which flashes its final farewell in the moment of its recognisability, is the past to be held fast.”

Walter Benjamin, 'On the Concept of History'.

I have always liked the idea of a piece of music as a time machine coming back-and-forth from the larger musical memory of the world. As a spiritual enquiry, other voices from other times echo in the present, bringing music together within the distortion of traveling time. Old music is now presented through new sounds, and in my piece, is also being reflected in old cassette tapes acting like acoustical mirrors, expressing not only the shade of early voices but also the deformation of time itself. Our ears were not there. Even though, paradoxically, those stolen memories are vivid in our hearts, perhaps not in the form of remembrances, but like premonitions from a dispersing past moving forward.
© Cecillia Arditto

Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz is best known as one of the major Baroque literary figures of Mexico. Her studies in classical and medieval philosophy and fierce assertion of womens rights to scholastic enquiry distinguish her as a philosopher too, and according to Mary Morkovsky, Sor Juana's philosophical poetry (Sueno) indicates a coherent world view and her critique of the Jesuit sermon reveals her mastery of logic.

Concert supported by Embassy of the Kingdom of The Netherlands in collaboration with Bergens kammermusikkforening.

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