20 декабря 2022 года на Гала премиум Союза композиторов и музыковедов Молдовы публикация Елены УЗУН «Три грации Василия Медведя» была удостоена премии за продвижение авторских сочинений в Масс-медиа. И мы предлагаем английскую версию статьи Вашему вниманию. Most recently, a new musical cycle by the American, Ukrainian and Moldovan composer Vasiliy Medved «Three Graces» for Strings, has come to completion. We bring to your attention my conversation with Vasiliy on this topic, especially since he is a full member of the Composers and Musicologists Union of Moldova. Vasiliy MEDVED – The plays of the cycle were inspired by the series of abstract drawings by the American, Boston-based artist Jordan Arpelle. Jordan considers herself a successor to the ideas of abstract art by Kazimir Malevich, when the primary, abstract form is filled with content through active participation in this process of the mind and heart of the contemplator. The general name of the cycle is «Three Graces». Since the artist’s series depict various permutations of primordial shapes of cross, square, and circle, I aspired to establish, through the composed music, a connection between their multilayered meaningfullness and their timeless sourse — fundamental ethical foundation of our civilization, represented by the minor Goddesses of Greek Mythology. The first movement is named after goddess Pasithea, who symbolizes alternative states of consciousness of the individual, and his/her spiritual, inner life, in general; the music’s content draws on the portion of abstract drwaings with various permutations of crosses. For me, of course, the ascent to Golgotha, the crucifixion, and the descent from it into inexpressible transcendency, new state of being have become a thematic and spiritual aspiration. Elena UZUN “Three Graces” is now close to my heart with a certain allusion to the work of Olivier Messiaen. I listen to Pasithea, and in my head I have thoughts about Golgotha, for which I must always be ready. In the music of the first part of the cycle, all three heroines intertwined — the Graces, perhaps with their looks, ethereal influences, but not only Pasithea reigns in the first part. The heroines of the cycle are not only graceful in accordance with the name of the cycle — they are thoughtful and there is a certain duality, asynchrony of their existence in two or even three time planes at the same time. The Graces live not only their own special life, but rather together the three of them. The cycle sounds dynamic, lofty and dramatic… Vasiliy MEDVED — The first part is the most dramatic, but also — enlightened after the liberation from the cross of life. Alternative states contribute to the shifting of the plans of consciousness, which, I dare to hope, has been realized, to some degree, in music. I want to believe that the title will prepare the listener for the content of the movement. The Three Graces submerge into the meaningfullness...
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