Tomasi wrote this Ballade for the legendary French
saxophonist, Marcel Mule. Mule
describes the Ballade in the
following manner:
You have to put yourself
into the character of the piece because the music expresses the sadness of the
life of a clown... (Tomasi) had written
notations on the music where one must imagine the clown on the banks of the
Seine, gesturing to amuse the public... A
clown walks along the Seine at night and thinks about everything in his life
that is not amusing. It is a little drama. It takes the form of a blues, which was
invented by African-American musicians, and it is sad music. He used that so that the clown's feelings of
sadness grow and grow, and at the end, it explodes. At the end, the clown cries as he walks along the Seine... Finally, the clown resigns himself to
continue to make the public laugh.
Classical Music | Music for Saxophone
Henri Tomasi
Ballade Play
Recorded on 06/16/2004, uploaded on 05/07/2009
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Ballade
Tomasi wrote this Ballade for the legendary French saxophonist, Marcel Mule. Mule describes the Ballade in the following manner:
You have to put yourself into the character of the piece because the music expresses the sadness of the life of a clown... (Tomasi) had written notations on the music where one must imagine the clown on the banks of the Seine, gesturing to amuse the public... A clown walks along the Seine at night and thinks about everything in his life that is not amusing. It is a little drama. It takes the form of a blues, which was invented by African-American musicians, and it is sad music. He used that so that the clown's feelings of sadness grow and grow, and at the end, it explodes. At the end, the clown cries as he walks along the Seine... Finally, the clown resigns himself to continue to make the public laugh.
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