"JELIA's TWINKLE"
(for two pianos, eight hands)
by Michael Gunadi Widjaja
(for two pianos, eight hands)
by Michael Gunadi Widjaja
The TWINKLE
TWINKLE LITTLE STAR
is one of the most famous songs for many decades.
Its origin is a lullaby. A Nursery song with the lyric of old English
poem,
that created by Jane Taylor.
COMPOSITORICAL NOTES
(from Mr. Michael Gunadi Widjaja)
The melody of this piece is stepping in common interval.
So children
can relatively easy to sing out this piece.
The harmony structure seems
like giving some kind of “open space” to being explored.
This may be one
cause of why the twinkles composed in many different forms of music,
include as a lesson song.
Jelia asked me to make an attractive and unique arrangement
for this
twinkle that contains love, passion,
and true friendship among her
Suzuki colleagues.
So I choose a popular music format for theme
structure with kind of dissonant chordal.
It expresses the meaning that
friendship is not always going to be smooth.
In the second movement,
I used one of the early Jazz form “RAGTIME”
as a manifestation of dynamic relation.
In Jazz someone can share the
musical passion
to each other in jam session, just like friendship.
In the third movement, there is Dang Dut.
Focused on the fact that it
may contain many tradition elements.
As if to remind that friendship
never be loose from its cultural root.
In the other side, Dang Dut is
sexy, erotic, and passionate.
In other words, this is Jelia’s Twinkle,
that has a lot of side –
still has the virtuosity in true friendship,
but also very passionate and exciting.
I call it a composition, even the theme is not mine.
Format: Piano Ensembles - 2 pianos, 8 hands
"JELIA's TWINKLE"
(for 2 pianos, 8 hands)
by Michael Gunadi Widjaja
Pianolicious Moment @ Istituto Italiano, October 6th, 2012