On the occasion of the Met "Live in HD" broadcast of The Tempest
by Thomas Adès, here's a poem inspired by one of his orchestral works.
Simon Rattle paired Mahler's 5th Symphony with Adès' 4-movement symphonic tone poem
Asyla (the plural of Asylum) for his first program as the new director of the Berlin Philharmonic a decade ago. It's 3rd movement is a symphonic evocation of club music, and its title, Ecstasio is as rich a play on word as is Asyla.
Asyla
III. what is this
sound coming
out of even
the stems
of these
flowers?
and is
this ecstasio
imagined
or
palpably real
as Hamlet’s wound
or doubt
or disgust…
IV. so much
depends upon
a piano
tuned to another
key like
the crossed
purposes of
lovers or
parents
or gods.
The
thing is
simply
to find it.
(after Adès)
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