TUOB, DAVID - GENDARME DE LA LIBERTAD (CD)

"Gendarme de la Libertad (2020): A work for speaker and piano (or for just speaking pianist) and utilizes a text that I had wanted to set for many years but was not certain of the best approach until later. The text for the speaker is taken from the original Spanish words, as well as from an English translation, of the speech by Dr. Ernesto Guevara (Che) before the United Nations on 12/11/64 : "Those who kill their own children and discriminate daily against them because of the color of their skin; those who let the murderers of Blacks remain free, protecting them, and furthermore punishing the Black population because they demand their legitimate rights as free men - how can those who do this consider themselves guardians of freedom?" Duophony for open instrumentation (2020): This is one of the few works I've composed in which there are no silences at all (except at the beginning and ending of the piece, as per my custom to start and end on empty measures, which is my own tribute to Quaker culture and practice in which meetings begin with a moment of silence)." (label info)