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About
Matthew Silver Is a clown from Brooklyn (in a costume of a homeless person) an with his heart and performances he spoof the excessive seriousness by playing with taboos, rules, and social norms. He performs performances for generate smiles and laughter, loosening people’s armor, and opening up a portal for imagination, creativity and love. On his official page he says "We may trick ourselves into believing we know everything, constantly striving for perfection in a society that requires a civilized, job-holding, serious individual. We cannot be perfect. If we allow ourselves the chance to be flawed perhaps we can let the obstacles humble us, rather than make us rigid. In the end we can let our guards down to attain our most basic need of giving and receiving love".
Enjoy, enjoy a little more. Live in the moment. Don't get old. Don't judge people. Because you can't be free if you judge people. Enjoy, enjoy a little more To live and to live in a mystery
Live in the moment. you can't get away from your heart.
and to find purpose and to live in the now.
because life is a paradox, It is a mirror of confusion
the magic is now!
So love now! I Love all of you.
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Prologue
The secret of life A short story about the piece
The idea of doing this work was born during the 11th World Symposium on Choral Music in Barcelona. The same Brady Allred determined that it should be something very beautiful, easy to sing and accessible to all choirs. Playing with simple ideas (a melody of nothing more than two vertices) this melody is born whose lyrics only said "enjoy" and the variant "and enjoy" for 4 minutes. When I met Betina in Valencia, the work was completely transformed and the idea started that in the middle it should have an explosive force that says "Do not be an idiot! Do not miss this moment, life is beautiful, value it! " 15 days later, when I went to visit the house of a Buddhist friend in a field still in Spain, I already knew what theme it should have, I knew the shape of the piece and I even knew the melody. I told him everything I experienced during this trip and he told me that the meaning of life is in the present. Behind is suffering for the nostalgic and ahead is uncertainty. After a long talk we saw Matthew Silver's video and immediately I understood that his message was all I needed to write this work. So I added "Enjoy, enjoy a little more" so that the poem fits in the way my piece was going to have and I started to create the harmony of that melody. Back in Buenos Aires, I applied for a classroom available with a piano at the university and started working on the piano for the first time. At the beginning it was a work in A major, a tonality that I found very bright for a beginning of work. Then I remembered the emotional and nostalgic weight that the tonality of G flat so I decided to use that tonality with the condition of going to A Major for the brightest moment. After the return of Betina to Argentina (September 17), I found with whom to discuss all the fears of life and how to get ahead in such an adverse country. I found a person who was going to find a way to get ahead like I did. At that time, from the measure 21 (September 21) I knew that this work was a message for her: to walk without ties and t o find herself and love above all things. At the end of the writing, I realized that this piece is a desperate cry of love for humanity, is the exhibition of the soul of someone who for months was transforming and could see life from many aspects. I hope the interpreters can feel that journey of body and spirit. Only then will the work have fulfilled its purpose.
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