Pernah nggak baca tulisan lo masa jadul terus mikir, "Astagah! Dulu gue nulis begini!"? Terus reaksinya bisa malu atau tercengang.
Nah, ini nih... gue baru nemu print out artikel gue tahun 2001. Hihihiii, jadul beud yak. Nemunya kebetulan, pas bongkar-bongkar kamar karena mau pindahan. Artikel gue yang lain udah pada lenyap, baik karena kena banjir, hard disk komputer kebakar, sampai terkunci di email lama yang entah kenapa password-nya gak bisa dipake maupun di-recover :((.
Balik lagi ke artikel jadul yang baru gue temuin ini.... Artikel ini tentang konser duo gitaris klasik asal Polandia. Konsernya di Erasmus Huis, Jakarta. Gue datang ke sana sebagai penulis untuk sebuah situs web yang sekarang sudah mati (ihiks). Modal pengetahuan musik klasik ala kadarnya, karena pernah sebentar les piano klasik dan abang gue les gitar klasik, sedikit banyak jadi bekal buat nikmatin, wawancara dan nulis.
O iya. Pas wawancara si gitaris, atase seni budaya dari kedubes Polandia kan mendampingi gue dan 1 wartawan lain tuh. Eh, beberapa hari kemudian, setelah dia baca artikel gue yang bahasa Indonesia, dia nelpon, katanya suka sama artikel gue, dan minta gue terjemahin ke Bahasa Inggris. Asiik.
Jadi... beginilah tulisan versi Inggrisnya (versi Inggris GUE tepatnya). *malu* *dan tercengang* *yang penting didokumentasi di web*.
CLASSIC MET PINK PANTHER IN POLAND GUITARISTS' CONCERT
What happened if some classical repertoires met Latin compositions and a cartoon movie theme in the same performance?
The answer was: three different atmospheres inside the concert hall. One, a sentimental emotion when it came to the classical parts. Two, an enthusiast feeling when it came to the Latin session. And three, a humorous feeling when the piece of a cartoon movie was played.
Poland's duo classical guitarists Kryzstof Pelech (31) and Jarema Klich (33) presented them in their recital at the Erasmus Huis, Jakarta. The two musicians are the country's top guitarists. They are members of European philharmonic orchestras. And for years, both has been acknowledged as the bests by Polish famous music magazine "Gitara I Bas".
Pelech and Klich, who came to Jakarta as performers of JakArt@2001, explored their classical guitars not only with conservative method, like picking the cord or shake all the strings. They also showed the audience other ways of how to explore the instruments like knocking the wooden body, scratching the cords and playing it with their palms, producing sounds like humming.
With those techniques, the two brilliant musicians made a classical guitar concert became not to serious and formal one. The audience crowded the hall mused themselves at one time, and smiled widely or even laughed at another time.
Pelech and Klich initiated the concert with two Sonatas by Bernardo Pasquini and Domenica Scarlatti. Each sonata consists of 3 parts. These repertoires were composed in 1700's and become two of the finest classical pieces with baroque tones for guitars.
After that, both guitarists raised the temperature of the concert hall with more enthusiast selections. Argentinean musician Astor Piazzola's composition took turn. Then three pieces from musician Jorge Morel, 'Melancolio Buenos Aires', 'Contratiempo' and Triunfal' were played with full of staccato, created a passionate Latino atmosphere.
The Polish guitarists also performed other classical Latin compositions and arrangements by Jorge Morel, like 'Allegretto for Two', 'Morena' (Julian Plaza) and 'Corralera' (Anselmo Aieta). But a different nuance emerged in Morel's 'A Rhapsody for Two Brothers'. In this piece of work, sound of jazz were heard almost clearly. And when the duo played 'Danza Brasilera' from the same composer, the audience could enjoy easy listening jazzy-latin tones a la bossanova.
Other compositions sith Latin touch were performed in two repertoires, 'Regresso' by Jaime Zenamon and 'Aqua e Vino' by Egberto Gismonti. Both were full of tremolos, but had different song character. The first one was filled with thumps on the body of wooden guitar, sounded lively and passionately. The second one was played very smoothly and gently, made a serene situation inside the concert hall.
However, the audience seemed to have the same opinion, that the nicest composition played by the duo was Stanley Myrer's 'Cavatina' from 1978 Hollywood movie "The Deer Hunter". The tones from the John Williams' work was very soothing. The atmosphere became tender and peaceful, calmed down the crowd who has just warmed by 'Allegretto for Two'.
But Pelech and Klich didn't want the melancholy situation dominate their concert. Pelech triggered the audience's laugh when he introduced the next composition with a simple description, "A very famous song in Poland.... and in the world". And when the duo played the composition, the song heard was the cartoon movie "Pink Panther" theme song by Henry Mancini, completed with the funny hurling sound. In Indonesia, the song was used often in slapstick movies starred by comedian trio Dono-Kasino-Indro
At the last segment of their recital, they performed five parts of Carlo Domeniconi's 'Circus Music'. And just like its name, Circus, many unpredictable techniques and tricks of exploring classical guitar were showed off. For instance, in 'The Firebrigade on the Ice', audience could imagine some firebrigades or something running and chasing each other. In the middle of the song, Pelech showed his tone-accuracy while playing the guitar, when he make a fast decreasing tone form a very high to very low one. After that, quickly he made the tone normal again.
Other technique of exploring classical guitar appeard in 'Yogi Bear Trying to Get Through The Keyhole'. When playing that, Klich intentionally scratched the cords, make a sound like crackle of fire. The sound stopped at once with a shake of the six cords of Pelech's guitar, means that the Yogi Bear has successfully get through the keyhole.
Standing salute given by the audience when they left the stage. The crowd kept standing up giving them big applause, not for ending the concert but to call up the Warsawa guys to return to the stage. And when both guitarists appeared again grinning, the audience expressed their content and back to their seats.
'The Orchestra Says Goodbye' was played as their last song. After the anchor, the audience had to allow them ending the concert. Big applause and grin were given to the duo, because the conclusion of the serious melodious classical repertoire, a part of Ludwig van Beethoven's 'Symphony No.9' or 'Ode to Joy' is played shortly and very fast. That was how the concert were concluded.
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catt: ketidaksempurnaan itu milik mahlukNya, termasuk gue. :)))))
