Website: https://www.wmarsey.com
1. Ghost Story
2. Bar Boy
3. The Texter
4. The After-Party
5. Family Photo
6. The Reader
7. Three Friends
8. Man with Limp Wrist
Bemerkung: William Marsey (2023): The title for this piece comes from a 2019 oil painting by Salman Toor. It’s a tall, thin canvas, a whole-body portrait of a naked man in introspection. The painting has always struck me as unusual. Toor’s work of that time usually features characters in the midst of dynamic, domestic scenes, his distinctive protagonists (ciphers for the painter himself) finding themselves in quiet moments at crowded bars, at parties with friends, enjoying quiet reveries in the glow of a smartphone. The central character of Man with Limp Wrist however is a single, posed figure, standing alone against a grey wall, one arm raised with a dangling hand, his gaze averted.Toor’s style inspires the whole set as well as the eponymous final movement. The preceding seven parts of this piece concentrate on other paintings by the artist, each describing single fleeting moods or scenes, domestic settings: https://www.wmarsey.com/music/man-with-limp-wrist.
This work is licensed under CC BY 4.0 Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
ao. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Monika Fink-Naumann
monika.fink@uibk.ac.at
Institut für Musikwissenschaft / Department of Musicology
Universität Innsbruck / University of Innsbruck
Haus der Musik
Universitätsstraße 1
A - 6020 Innsbruck