Alisa Zaika

’’CHIMAERAS’’ for clarinet and piano

April 2023. Performance by Stefan Bulyha and Alisa Zaika. LSO St Luke’s (London, UK).
This title is both a literal representation and a rather abstract collective of musical imagery. Chimaeras, creatures of a very particular appearance in Greek Mythology, have gradually shape- shifted themselves into crucial symbols of Gothic architecture – distorted and gruesome, yet embellishing such beautiful cathedrals as Notre-Dame de Paris. Biology describes a chimaera as a single organism that contains two sets of DNA – and so, merges two different ’’individuals’’ in itself. Another, somewhat sentimental definition that the word has acquired overtime is an ’’illusory, intangible dream, a delusion’’.

Duration:

ca. 15’

Date composed:

2022

Instrumentation:

clarinet in b, piano

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