KACHKANIRAQMI (I STILL EXIST)
Concerto Grosso for String Quartet and String Orchestra Full Score
From the G. Schirmer Rental Library
Date of Printing________________
G. Schirmer, Inc.
New York, NY
Gabriela Lena Frank
KACHKANIRAQMI (I STILL EXIST)
Commissioned by Chris and Barbara Christo ersen for the Colorado Music Festival Co-Commissioned by John Kongsgaard Co-Commissioned by Richard Replin and Elissa Stein
duration circa 21 minutes
G. Schirmer, Inc.
New York, NY
Kachkaniraqmi (I still exist)
I have spent my composerly life fascinated by my cultural heritage and its reception in the wider world. I tell my younger siblings coming up in the music industry that as the landscape shifts around them, politically and demographically, and regards them variously more or less acceptable through the ages, their own journey must continue unmolested by, at worst, the violence of fears, and at best, the oddness of trendiness.
“Kachkaniraqmi,” or “I still exist” in the indigenous Quechua language of my Peruvian forebearers, speaks to the resilience, even insistence, of a racial soul through the generations. In this four-movement work, a brief pastoral Andean prelude, a moody mountain soliloquy, a romp of thieving winds, and a lyrical child’s wake utilize the sonorous possibilities of a concerto grosso for string quartet and string orchestra, variously celebrating the quartet as its own ensemble, as soloists, and as section leaders within the orchestra. Throughout, re-imaginings of age-old indigenous motifs and rhythms proliferate.
Table of Contents:
I. Preludio Andino (Andean Prelude) 1
II. Soliloquio Serrano (Mountain Soliloquy)............................................ 10
III. Vientos Ladrones (Robber Winds) ..................................................... 18
IV. Velorio Infantil (Child’s Wake) 63
KACHKANIRAQMI (I STILL EXIST)
I. Preludio Andino (Andean Prelude)
II. Soliloquio Serrano (Mountain Soliloquy)
con sord., non vib.
con sord., non vib.
espresivo, llorando Tempo I, una memoria
= 60
con sord., non vib.
con sord., non vib. al sord.