SHOW AND SPECTACULARITY IN THE WORK "MUSIC SEMINAR" OF THE COMPOSER GHEORGHE COSTENISCU

Abstract

The work “The Musical Seminar” by composer Costinescu is a stage work for 5 instrumentalists who both play and act, with additional musicians, 4 actor-mime-dancers, a “group/ crowd of people from the street”, and an electronic tape recording. The score is divided into four consecutive parts, performed without interruption, a quadripartite composition: part I - „…From the beginning of a certain music”; part II - „The linguistic musical styles”; part III - „The ‘musical’ musical styles”; part IV - „Toward the end... of which music?”. The work represents a demonstration of spectacle, both through the newly introduced elements of the performing arts – actors, mimes, sound objects, recorded tapes, sirens, etc. – as well as through their harmonization into a dramatic structure highlighted by dissonances and consonances. The entire work is a shaping of the modern world, of contrasts, of stridencies, but also of nostalgias, of reveries, as if the chaos perceived in society had a chance to organize harmoniously through the imaginary, which for the author is like an ever-flowing river, a river without end.