{"product_id":"gf-haas-i-cant-breathe-universal","title":"G.F. Haas: \"I can't breathe\"","description":"\u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eComposer\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/georg-friedrich-haas\"\u003eGeorg Friedrich Haas (1953-)\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e \u003cstrong class=\"original-instrumentation-title\"\u003eInstrumentation\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cspan class=\"original-instrumentation\"\u003eTrumpet\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eWork\u003c\/strong\u003e: \"I can't breathe\" (2015)\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli class=\"binding hidden\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBinding\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISMN\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cspan class=\"book-barcode\"\u003e9790008091544\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eSize\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cspan class=\"book-width\"\u003e9.1\u003c\/span\u003e x \u003cspan class=\"book-length\"\u003e12.0\u003c\/span\u003e inches\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli class=\"book-pages\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePages\u003c\/strong\u003e: 12\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"row\"\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c!-- split --\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"row\"\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"one-half columns\"\u003e \u003ch4\u003eDescription\u003c\/h4\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"feature_divider\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cp\u003eCommissioned by the Musikfabrik Ensemble, supported by the Ministry of Families, Children, Youth, Culture and Sports, Province of Rhineland-Westphalia\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI live in the USA. I like it here. It is a wonderful country with wonderful people and wonderful culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut …\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen I walk on a lonely street in New York in the evening, I am afraid. of criminals. If my skin were black, I would be more afraid of the police than I am of criminals.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEric Garner has become a symbol.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe had doubly bad luck. On the one hand, he was in the wrong place at the wrong time. But above all, his skin was the wrong colour. His offence: he had bought cigarettes. and he was African-American. The police thought he was a black marketeer and acted accordingly. During this official action he suffocated – he was asthmatic. His last words were \"I can't breathe!\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThose who brought about his death were not even indicted – they did not have to stand trial in any court.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat was not just one isolated case.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eProtest stirred. \"Black Lives Matter!\" was the slogan heard throughout the land at much-noted demonstrations. I declare my solidarity with that protest in this work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eI can't breathe for solo trumpet\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003ein memoriam Eric Garner\u003c\/em\u003e begins quite traditionally with a dirge: a free cantilena in twelve-tone space. Then the intervals constrict; the song becomes more and more smothered, ultimately in a 16-note scale. The dirge constricts within a sonic space of other trumpet notes of extreme registers and changing colours – cautionary symbols, perhaps, of the world from which the victim was violently torn away.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI give no notes to the perpetrators.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePerforming the piece requires many rapid changes and slow alterations of mutes; Marco Blaauw's double-bell trumpet is ideally suited for this.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI thank the Cologne Philharmonie, Heinz Holliger and Marco Blaauw for making this performance possible on such short notice. and I am especially thankful to the persons responsible at the Musikfabrik Ensemble for waiving their vested right to premiere the piece in one of their concerts so that it could be made accessible to the public at the earliest possible date.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Universal Edition","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45102164869199,"sku":"UE36965","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0900\/1828\/files\/e5c6de9d89ac0e9ab3a6990dc4f95b87.jpg?v=1776353990","url":"https:\/\/www.ficksmusic.com\/products\/gf-haas-i-cant-breathe-universal","provider":"Ficks Music","version":"1.0","type":"link"}