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Voices grow loud and then decline
The musical piece 'Voices grow loud and then decline' was composed to celebrate the 100th birthday of the Nobel laureate, poet and writer Czeslaw
Milosz. Segments of his poems and essays are recited in this piece both in the original Polish and in Hungarian translation.
Albert Markos has constructed the piece with great creative freedom ignoring the chronological and biographical aspects of the writer's works. The piece is a fusion of musical and linguistic games, improvisation and references to great figures in musical history. The piece's threads and textures are both consistent and inconsistent, logical and illogical. The young composer was inspired by memorable collaborations between music and literature, such as 'Kafka Fagments' by György Kurtág (1986) and the radioplay 'Words and Music' by Samuel Beckett (1961).