Song of Happiness #
Performances
#1 15/5/2018 - Semana da Composição 2018 - Auditório Vianna da Motta - Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa (PT) - Jorge Ramos (Electronics)
#2 22/5/2018 - Festival Música Viva 2018 - O'culto da Ajuda (PT) - Jorge Ramos (Electronics)
Programme notes
Song of Happiness # is a work with a strong passage in the form of a song in which I put together two of the activities that make me happier, writing music and making music. It is a live performance with a degree of freedom of interpretation so it is likely to sound different each time it is presented. The composition itself is rewritten every time I interpret it, that is, the interpretation is by itself the final act of the composition of this work. This piece is dedicated to the director Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1990).
Written between 2017/2018 as part of my Master's Degree in Music — Composition at Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa (PT).
© PRS/MCPS/SPA ISWC (#1) T-045.704.692-2 (#2) T-045.704.894-0
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Excerpt from Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's interview 'A Talk with Alfred Hitchcock.' This 1964 interview of Hitchcock was part of the CBC television series Telescope with host-director Fletcher Markle. 'A Talk with Alfred Hitchcock.'
Fletcher Markle:
Mr. Hitchcock, what's your definition of happiness?
Alfred Hitchcock:
A clear horizon, nothing to worry about on your plate, only things that are creative and not destructive and that's within yourself. Within me I can’t bear quarrelling, I can’t bear feelings between people. I think hatred is wasted energy and it’s all non-productive. I’m very sensitive. A sharp word, said by a person who has a temper, if they’re close to me, hurts me for days. I know we’re only human, we do go in for these various emotions, call them negative emotions but when all these are removed and you can look forward, and the road is clear ahead, and now you’re going to create something. I think that’s as happy as I would ever want to be.
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Performances
#1 15/5/2018 - Semana da Composição 2018 - Auditório Vianna da Motta - Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa (PT) - Jorge Ramos (Electronics)
#2 22/5/2018 - Festival Música Viva 2018 - O'culto da Ajuda (PT) - Jorge Ramos (Electronics)
Programme notes
Song of Happiness # is a work with a strong passage in the form of a song in which I put together two of the activities that make me happier, writing music and making music. It is a live performance with a degree of freedom of interpretation so it is likely to sound different each time it is presented. The composition itself is rewritten every time I interpret it, that is, the interpretation is by itself the final act of the composition of this work. This piece is dedicated to the director Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1990).
Written between 2017/2018 as part of my Master's Degree in Music — Composition at Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa (PT).
© PRS/MCPS/SPA ISWC (#1) T-045.704.692-2 (#2) T-045.704.894-0
Text
Excerpt from Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's interview 'A Talk with Alfred Hitchcock.' This 1964 interview of Hitchcock was part of the CBC television series Telescope with host-director Fletcher Markle. 'A Talk with Alfred Hitchcock.'
Fletcher Markle:
Mr. Hitchcock, what's your definition of happiness?
Alfred Hitchcock:
A clear horizon, nothing to worry about on your plate, only things that are creative and not destructive and that's within yourself. Within me I can’t bear quarrelling, I can’t bear feelings between people. I think hatred is wasted energy and it’s all non-productive. I’m very sensitive. A sharp word, said by a person who has a temper, if they’re close to me, hurts me for days. I know we’re only human, we do go in for these various emotions, call them negative emotions but when all these are removed and you can look forward, and the road is clear ahead, and now you’re going to create something. I think that’s as happy as I would ever want to be.
Scroll down for recording ↓
Performances
#1 15/5/2018 - Semana da Composição 2018 - Auditório Vianna da Motta - Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa (PT) - Jorge Ramos (Electronics)
#2 22/5/2018 - Festival Música Viva 2018 - O'culto da Ajuda (PT) - Jorge Ramos (Electronics)
Programme notes
Song of Happiness # is a work with a strong passage in the form of a song in which I put together two of the activities that make me happier, writing music and making music. It is a live performance with a degree of freedom of interpretation so it is likely to sound different each time it is presented. The composition itself is rewritten every time I interpret it, that is, the interpretation is by itself the final act of the composition of this work. This piece is dedicated to the director Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1990).
Written between 2017/2018 as part of my Master's Degree in Music — Composition at Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa (PT).
© PRS/MCPS/SPA ISWC (#1) T-045.704.692-2 (#2) T-045.704.894-0
Text
Excerpt from Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's interview 'A Talk with Alfred Hitchcock.' This 1964 interview of Hitchcock was part of the CBC television series Telescope with host-director Fletcher Markle. 'A Talk with Alfred Hitchcock.'
Fletcher Markle:
Mr. Hitchcock, what's your definition of happiness?
Alfred Hitchcock:
A clear horizon, nothing to worry about on your plate, only things that are creative and not destructive and that's within yourself. Within me I can’t bear quarrelling, I can’t bear feelings between people. I think hatred is wasted energy and it’s all non-productive. I’m very sensitive. A sharp word, said by a person who has a temper, if they’re close to me, hurts me for days. I know we’re only human, we do go in for these various emotions, call them negative emotions but when all these are removed and you can look forward, and the road is clear ahead, and now you’re going to create something. I think that’s as happy as I would ever want to be.
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