Symphony No. 3 - Silence : Hawkes Pocket Score 1556. Cet article n’est pas disponible.Symphony No. 3 - Silence : Hawkes Pocket Score 1556

The inspiration for this work came from the novel Silence by the great Japanese writer, Shusaku Endo (1923-96). His book asks profound philosophical questions and resonates with one of the most anguished questions asked 2, 000 years ago, "My God, my God, why have you abandoned me ? " Endo's 'silence' is the silence of God in the face of terrible events springing from the merciless nature of man : torture, genocide, holocaust. For Endo, though, this silence is not absence but presence, a notion that has many musical analogies. The emptiness and solitude of a composer's silence is nevertheless pregnant with the promise of possibility and potency. The connections between music and silence are made palpable in this single-movement symphony ; the work begins in silence and the climax is a prolonged fermata. The final event is a bar of silence - the conception and metaphorical point of the entire work. Instrumentation : orchestra