Search - Darian Stavans :: Noir et Blanc / Black and White

Noir et Blanc is a CD for orchestra. Fully conceived for it. One would notice immediately by listening to it that the only missing feature is the contrast that the title evokes. Why ? The reason is because the contrasts does not exist, they are the ends of a range of grays and then the opposites appear; when things flow over a hint of power, under a nostalgic melancholy, through the pain and glory, come and go, whispering like the water flowing down the river, where tenderness can interlink with madness , and sometimes, they look the same although they act different. This musical CD talks about this intriguing range of grays and how deep they can touch the human essence. When things can be so different and at the same time so alike that only through the brave to prove the distance between them is when one dares to call them Noir et Blanc - Black and White. Meanwhile everything flows, apparently, in a range of grays.