James Dillon Come Live With Me
James Dillon Come Live With Me
James Dillon Come Live With Me
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<strong>James</strong> <strong>Dillon</strong><br />
<strong>Come</strong> <strong>Live</strong> <strong>With</strong> <strong>Me</strong> (1981–82)<br />
female voice, fl (picc & a-fl), ob (obd’a & ca), perc, pf<br />
Duration: 15 minutes<br />
Published by Peters Edition (EP 7248)<br />
text: Song of Songs<br />
first performance: February1982, South Bank, London, Josephine Nendick, Suoraan<br />
conducted by <strong>James</strong> Clark<br />
The second of three erotic songs [the others are Who do you love (1980) and A Roaring<br />
Flame (1982)]. The text consists of the bride’s verses 3-12 of the Hebrew Canticles ‘Sheer-<br />
Ha-Sheereem’ or Song of Songs. The theme is one of conjugality and was written as a<br />
wedding present for Roger Wright and Rosie Potter, to whom it is dedicated. The work is<br />
sung in Hebrew, and is scored for female voice, flute, oboe, piano and percussion.<br />
The three works in the series arose from separate commissions - the instrumentation<br />
therefore reflects the demands and restraints of each. Performed together they form a<br />
trilogy linked by a common theme, and should inhabit one half of the concert<br />
programme. Performed as a trilogy the original order of composition will be respected,<br />
otherwise each work is self-contained and may be performed separately.<br />
The common theme is the quest for unity, as symbolized through a ‘conjugal knot’,<br />
each work being a stage or level in the process:<br />
love = marriage = death<br />
Located within an ‘ars erotica’ - and distinct from both the perfumed nostalgia of the<br />
‘chant d’amour’ or its consequent guilt soaked ‘angst-traum’ - each of these love songs<br />
are an invocation where the portents of power and violence, inherent in all<br />
relationships, infuse the surface.
Who do you love (1980)<br />
How nicely does doggish lust<br />
beg for a piece of spirit<br />
when a piece of flesh<br />
is denied it<br />
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<strong>James</strong> <strong>Dillon</strong><br />
Nietzsche<br />
The ‘lover’ possessed by an ‘absence’ turns to self-gratification.<br />
text: Gaelic<br />
source: Anon<br />
<strong>Come</strong> live with me (1981)<br />
Romantic love remains constantly abstract<br />
in itself, and if it is able to acquire no<br />
history, death already is lying in wait<br />
for it, because its eternity is illusory.<br />
Conjugal love begins with possession and<br />
acquires inward history.<br />
Kierkegaard<br />
The ‘bride’ offers a ‘presence’, and invites the lover to her side.<br />
text: Hebrew<br />
source: Sheer-Ha-Sheereem (Song of Songs)
A Roaring Flame (1982)<br />
A dance of duplicity<br />
or an erasure of binarity?<br />
Executes the pas de deux - ‘la petite morte’.<br />
text: Gaelic & Provençal<br />
source: Carmina Gadelica & Clara d’Anduza<br />
The source of the titles are as as follows:<br />
Who do you love Eilas McDaniel (Bo Diddley)<br />
<strong>Come</strong> live with me Christopher Marlowe<br />
A Roaring Flame The Lament of Liadan (anon)<br />
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<strong>James</strong> <strong>Dillon</strong><br />
Derrida
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