The Netherlands, Spain, Austria, Belgium, the United States, Greece, England, Luxembourg, Japan, Czechoslovakia, France, Wales,Jamaica, the USSR, Ireland, Singapore, Monte Carlo, Scotland, Germany, Haiti, Switzerland, Canada, Italy, Cuba, Hungary, Sicily
After travelling during my years in publishing and for my own research for the operas, I am drawn to an idea mentioned by my grandfather, Robert Le Ricolais: ‘The great changes of terrain for us consist no longer in going far away…but rather in going far in terms of depth.’ (1)
Here are two recent music/films, based on my transcription of J.S. Bach’s Prelude and Fugue XXII from the first volume of his amazing collection The Well-Tempered Clavier. This transcription was first performed in Ely Cathedral (a wonderful acoustic for this work) by a territorial army wind band.
'Question yourself on what you think is simple and what is simple. A table is a simple structure, yes.... but if you analyse it you have to master hyperbolic functions....' (2)
September 30 1967, Paris Robert Le Ricolais (1894-1977) ________________________________________________________________ (1) From ‘Matières’ (1964), in Structures Implicit and Explicit, (Pennsylvania: the Graduate School of Fine Arts, University of Pennsylvania) 122, 1973. (2) From ‘Personal Memories’, Haresh Lalvani, in Le Carre Bleu, No 2, 1994, Le Ricolais issue, p.33.