ALICE + ZOLTAN 4EVER (2014)
For Alto Saxophone, Bass Trombone, and Piano
Duration ca. 11:00
PROGRAM NOTES
Alice + Zoltan 4ever is based on a 2008 article in Gizmodo magazine. The article related the story of an inventor who, frustrated with his search for love, had decided to build himself a robotic companion. The author concluded on a frankly sympathetic note: “My conversation with Zoltan lasted a couple of hours – not enough time for me to be able to claim that I ‘got’ him. What I did find, however, is that he is not a freak. Strange, maybe, but sympathetic, mature... In short, a likable guy who can't make it work with women – and so he has found an alternative.”
This composition strives to capture something of this lovelorn inventor’s personality, and imagines him - maybe - finding happiness at last.
Commissioned by Ana García and premiered by Ana García, Jason White, and Tim Thompson in Bossi-Comelli Studio, New York, NY (October 2014).
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