This Illusion Meant Something (Bert and Ernie Go Looking for Answers)

from i am a tricky pear by Thomas Feng

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September 28 – October 9, 2018
New York, NY

First performance by Richard Valitutto, April 2019

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“I am growing up,” she thought… “I am losing some illusions, perhaps to acquire new ones.” – from Orlando, by Virginia Woolf

“It’s like poetry, it’s what you need it to be.” – Mark Saltzman (as quoted by the New York Times), former Sesame Street writer, on whether Bert and Ernie are gay

The first few minutes of this piece are played exclusively on the white keys. Music only on the white keys sometimes carries associations of naïvety, simplicity, innocence, childlikeness, purity. On the other hand, it is the alternating groups of two and three black keys that give the hand the most immediate sense of orientation on the keyboard – playing on only the white keys, you have to rely more on your ears and eyes not to get lost on the keyboard’s topography.

Over the course of the piece, the black keys are “found”, changing musical frames of reference – bringing the music to places both more definite and more ambiguous.

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from i am a tricky pear, released November 1, 2019

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Thomas Feng Brooklyn, New York

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