Só assim eu ficaria com os sapatos floridos
(flute, vibraphone and piano)
CD 2 > track 6
Só assim eu ficaria com os sapatos floridos
Title from “Romeo and Juliet”, by William Shakespeare: Why, then is my pump well flowered (Romeo: Act 2, scene IV). Mercucio calls himself a courtesy pin. Romeo, joking with a friend, says he really is a flower pin, for he is so courteous. Mercucio agrees and Romeo makes a pun, saying that, this is the only way he would have flowered shoes. Pump is a kind of shoe, and those days shoes had holes in it. The holes were made with pins of several sizes and shapes, creating decorative motives. If Mercucio were a flower pin, this would be the only way Romeo would have flowers on his shoes.
The form and the sonorities of the piece are inspired by a Zen garden: Static form, no returns or advances; the empty spaces get the importance of filled spaces. The sonority of the play is extremely delicate, exploring the silence and the sound reverberation. The instruments are explored unusually: Sonorities similar to whistling in the flute, the gentle touch and almost absence of the piano and the continuous sound of the vibraphone, played with the double bass bows.