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Alessandro Solbiati
A leaf of grass
(2003)
for 6 Instruments

It is a long time I wanted to dedicate a new work to the Ensemble Risognanze (formed within the Conservatoire of Milan and formerly called Ensemble Castiglioni) and to my friend Tito Ceccherini. I wanted to make also a tribute to the late Niccolò Castiglioni. I seized the occasion writing this sextet; its title derives from a line by Walt Whitman that Niccolò would appreciate much: "I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars". I took a sequence of chords from the Adagietto I di Intonazione, by Castiglioni, and I made it live a rich imaginative and formal arch composed by homophonic fits (at the beginning for instance), slipping jokes and by a more and more evident melos. All this to the beloved memory of Niccolò.