Mazzoli: Isabelle Eberhardt Dreams of Pianos

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For piano and pre-recorded electronics. Isabelle Eberhardt was an explorer and writer who, at the beginning of the 20th century, abandoned a comfortable aristocratic life for a nomadic existence in North Africa. She was a liberated individual who rejected conventional European morality in favor of her own path. She died in a desert flash flood at the age of twenty-seven. "Isabelle Eberhardt Dreams of Pianos" imagines her riding on horseback through the desert, lost in thought, remembering sounds and sensations of her old life. Fragments of Schubert's in A Major Sonata pierce her consciousness and are quickly suppressed. in her fatigue she dreams of a piano half-buried in sand, a flash flood of sheet music swirling around her. — Missy Mazzoli