Eye, symphonic fantasy for a boy´s soprano and orchestra - Olga Ježková
“I was impressed by a tiny little book for children of about five years and above containing excerpts from psalms and epistles translated, so to speak, into a clear language easily comprehensible for children. A child, however small, does sometimes have to face huge problems. I think it is therefore a good idea for him or her to be able to realize as early on as possible that there is something else than the people surrounding them to turn to; something superior, more stable, something sublime. Sometimes we can do but very little on our own, no matter how hard we try. But there is a different Eye that sees all. I have always cherished the image of the full sound of the symphonic orchestra besides a child’s voice as quite irresistible. And, what is more, for me it is a way of expressing any human being’s appeal to God.”
Most significant works by Olga Ježková (b. 1956) belong mainly to the genre of vocal music based either on liturgical or religious texts (Missa in honorem sancti Adalberti, Missa laeta, Jerusalem gaude, Pater noster, Raesurrexi, etc.), or on the poetry of O. Mikulášek, J. Skácel, and other Czech poets (song cycles and choral works). As for her instrumental music, she finds her inspiration in the realm of the visual arts and in her synesthetic perception of the world (Spektrum základních barev (The Basic Colour Spectrum) for guitar duo; Žlutočervený plakát (The Yellow-Red Poster) for symphonic sound; the string quartet Modrý (Blue), and the like.
Olga Ježková
Other compositions by Olga Ježková published in Czech Radio:
Blue Shades
David the Shepherd
instrumentationvoc puerile, picc, 2fl/fl alto in G, 2ob, ci, 2cl, 2fg, 4cor, 4trp, 3trb, tb, tymp, 7perc, arp, archidescriptionscorepubl.No.R 231price125,- CZK
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