Caroline Charrière
The Spider
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Caroline Charrière
The Spider
- Compositor Caroline Charrière
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The Work
Caroline Charriere felt at home in the world of the American poet Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) and it is not by coincidence. Writing poems in secret was for Emily Dickinson, who lived in a strict puritan environment, an escape, a space of freedom where everything could be said ... without saying it.
For Caroline Charriere, composing also represented a space of freedom, of inner freedom. Emily Dickinson lived physically recluse, in her family house. Through the newspapers, she kept abreast of the world, then capturing like no other in her poems the thousand facets of her time, torn between tradition and progress. Bold metaphors and original rhymes put her at the forefront of English-language poetry.
In her lifetime, only ten of her 1,800 poems were published, and anonymously. Today, she is considered one of the greatest poets of the 19th century. Her poems were an essential source of inspiration for Caroline Charrière, who set fourteen of them to music, including three for instrumental ensembles. She found in Emily Dickinson a kindred spirit, sharing with her a detached vision of the world, this kinship manifesting itself in the perfect fusion between words and music.
The spider fascinates, disgusts, scares...
The spider spins its web, discreetly, inexorably, valiantly. Even if the housewife’s broom destroys its work in one go. What does it matter if the housewife does not see the play of light in the web? The spider has the power to capture light with its silver ball. Always. And again. Insensitively. Continuously. Without limit. It is therefore not surprising that this mysterious, fragile and unshakeable creature triggers contradictory feelings in us.
But how to translate into music the silent activity of the spider? Caroline Charrière confers to the spider a tight ambitus and a dense harmony, a calm and regular metrical framework coupled with nuances that vary between pianississimo and mezzopiano. Only the clear sound of the silver ball disturbs this hushed atmosphere. In her personal score, the composer has added by hand the indication very soft, very legato, without rhythm at the beginning of the score. Also in bars 31, 46 and 47, she imagines an interpretation detached from any rhythmic constraints. In pure contrast, at bar 34, when the light suddenly breaks through fortissimo into the secret world of the spider. We are at the paroxysm of the piece: this light, which Emily Dickinson feared in real life and which she knew so well how to render in her words. Caroline Charriere takes the metaphor of the poetess further.
The web has been destroyed by the housewife? The spider takes a malicious pleasure to cling to the thread that hangs, starting to dance, dance, completely detached from the vicissitudes of the world, in a movement of perfect freedom.
The Spider is one of three pieces for mixed a cappella choir written in 2007 by Caroline Charrière on poems by Emily Dickinson. I am ready to go was also published by Editions Bim, while Flowers was published by Labatiaz (EMB 2653).
Irène Minder-Jeanneret
Caroline Charriere felt at home in the world of the American poet Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) and it is not by coincidence. Writing poems in secret was for Emily Dickinson, who lived in a strict puritan environment, an escape, a space of freedom where everything could be said ... without saying it.
For Caroline Charriere, composing also represented a space of freedom, of inner freedom. Emily Dickinson lived physically recluse, in her family house. Through the newspapers, she kept abreast of the world, then capturing like no other in her poems the thousand facets of her time, torn between tradition and progress. Bold metaphors and original rhymes put her at the forefront of English-language poetry.
In her lifetime, only ten of her 1,800 poems were published, and anonymously. Today, she is considered one of the greatest poets of the 19th century. Her poems were an essential source of inspiration for Caroline Charrière, who set fourteen of them to music, including three for instrumental ensembles. She found in Emily Dickinson a kindred spirit, sharing with her a detached vision of the world, this kinship manifesting itself in the perfect fusion between words and music.
The spider fascinates, disgusts, scares...
The spider spins its web, discreetly, inexorably, valiantly. Even if the housewife’s broom destroys its work in one go. What does it matter if the housewife does not see the play of light in the web? The spider has the power to capture light with its silver ball. Always. And again. Insensitively. Continuously. Without limit. It is therefore not surprising that this mysterious, fragile and unshakeable creature triggers contradictory feelings in us.
But how to translate into music the silent activity of the spider? Caroline Charrière confers to the spider a tight ambitus and a dense harmony, a calm and regular metrical framework coupled with nuances that vary between pianississimo and mezzopiano. Only the clear sound of the silver ball disturbs this hushed atmosphere. In her personal score, the composer has added by hand the indication very soft, very legato, without rhythm at the beginning of the score. Also in bars 31, 46 and 47, she imagines an interpretation detached from any rhythmic constraints. In pure contrast, at bar 34, when the light suddenly breaks through fortissimo into the secret world of the spider. We are at the paroxysm of the piece: this light, which Emily Dickinson feared in real life and which she knew so well how to render in her words. Caroline Charriere takes the metaphor of the poetess further.
The web has been destroyed by the housewife? The spider takes a malicious pleasure to cling to the thread that hangs, starting to dance, dance, completely detached from the vicissitudes of the world, in a movement of perfect freedom.
The Spider is one of three pieces for mixed a cappella choir written in 2007 by Caroline Charrière on poems by Emily Dickinson. I am ready to go was also published by Editions Bim, while Flowers was published by Labatiaz (EMB 2653).
Irène Minder-Jeanneret