Living Spirit - Ivan Kurz
Symphonic picture - Living spirit finished in 2005, is so far the last in a loose series of symphonic pictures, which Kurz wrote between 1977 and 2005
"The basic theme of the symphonic picture, the Living Spirit, is the portrait of an imaginary person. He is our guide along a journey illustrating the various levels and content of the human conscience. Personally, like a sentence is a thought expressed in words, music could be emotion expressed in notes. The ability to think, the rich world of emotions and feelings and the ability to turn back to your maker, that is what sets man apart from all other creatures and what gives us a uniqueness that cannot be repeated and fantastic possibilities: in the good and bad sense of the word....."
instrumentationfl picc, 2fl, 2ob, 2cl, 2fg, 4cor, 3trb, 3tbn, tb, timp, perc, archidescriptionscorepubl.NoR 105price180,- CZK
Parts only for hire at nakladatelstvi@rozhlas.cz
Other compositions by Ivan Kurz published in Czech Radio:
Adamu
Angelic Landscapes for barytone and grand orchestra
Expectations
Gendarmerie Humoresques, suite for orchestra
Christmas Songs and Carols
I Can Hear the Angels Sing
The Feathers of the Firebird