FREE
FALL ORATORIO
by Tibor Szemző and Péter
Forgács
CD
2000, FOB 021, Authors publication
[CD rendelés]
Performed by The Gordian Knot Company
with Ildi Fodor and László
Kéringer - vocal solos
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1. Szeged
introduction |
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4'53'' |
2.
Under the circumstances... (1938) |
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1'51'' |
3.
In the chamber of press (1938/XVI.) |
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3'39'' |
4. That
is regarded to be Jewish (1939/i) |
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1'33'' |
5.
Under the application of this current Law (1939/IV./1-2) |
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4'21'' |
6.
Black Eye paraphrase interlude |
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3'15'' |
7.
As civil servants
(1939/IV./5) |
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1'34'' |
8.
Jews shall not be (1939/IV./10-11-12) |
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2'23'' |
9.
Salvage |
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3'19'' |
10.
MUSZ |
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3'06'' |
11. The
Law Maintains
(1942/ind.) |
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2'24'' |
12.
Szeged, The Lengyel Family |
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3'13'' |
13. An
Offense is Committed
(1941/XV./15) |
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3'21'' |
14.
Prices |
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1'34'' |
15. Nor
for transport (1944/1240) |
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2'17'' |
16. As
of the enforcement of this decree quasi canon |
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1'56'' |
17.
less
than ten thousand inhabitants (1944/1610) |
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4'30'' |
18.
The distinguishing insignia (1944/1830) |
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1'58'' |
An Offense is Committed
- Prices
CD +
Free Fall.mpg video track
(PC and MAC)
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5'54'' |
Working
in tandem, Tibor Szemző and Péter Forgács have long been presenting
us with the documents of a lost world. Their Private History is in
fact very public: few of the events or pictures fail to afford identification
with oneself, ones own ancestors, family photographs, unwritten memories
or stories. What is true about the pictures is also true about the sound:
the music now concretely, now remotely, but in every instance, generates
the feeling of an objet trouvé. Aesthetics is brought about not so
much by intention; rather, it comes as a result of the joint efforts
of the audience on the receiving end, and the creator providing the
conditions of reception. Only this way can we view as a film
such intimacy which would appear improper even to a private company
of ones closest friends; and only this way can something become music
that would never stand up to being printed.
László
Vidovszky
This record is not for commercial
sale.
Fodderbasis / For-Creation Bt. 2000
Š Tibor Szemző - Péter Forgács BIEM
Artisjus
Sung
in Hungarian
Cover images from FREE FALL video
oratorio
Graphic design: Dezső Kiss - Y21
Fodderbasis Vol. 21.
Recorded at the Fodderbasis and
Mirage Sound Studio 1992-96 by László Hortobágyi,
vocal parts: HEAR Studio, 22nd January,
2000 by István Horváth
Performed
by The Gordian Knot Company
Ildi Fodor female voice
László Kéringer male voice
Éva Posvanecz violine (4,17,18)
Enikő Balogh viola (4,17,18)
Klára Schnierer cello (4,17,18)
Kinga Székely prepared piano (4,8,11,13,17,18)
János Németh cimbalom (5)
Gábor Váradi viola (5)
Gyula Maka acoustic bass (5)
Vilmos Búza acoustic bass (18)
Péter Forgács, István Bálint narration
(CD +)
Tibor Szemző conductor, voice
(3,16), flutes, sound devices
FREE
FALL / THE PETŐ SAGA
When
all the Jews of the Nazi occupied Europe vanished, the Hungarian Jewish
community was still intact in the early spring of 1944. What happened
with the Hungarian Jews, in a country which was a close ally to the
third Reich since the beginning of the war. This story has been already
told in several ways. One could hear the painful confessions of innocent
peoples' death marches, and see thousand meters of provoking film images
of the nazi science and of the bureaucratic mass homicide system.
The
Hungarian Holocaust - a private history saga - is recited by Free Fall
Oratorio.
How did it happen?
How did they fall, fall down, and
/ or in?
Gravity.
How one suppress the fearful signs
of threatening evidences?
Slowly eroding security unpredictable
events, and hopes, until the last ...
Do you understand the Hungarian
Jewish Law, if 'angels' voice recites them in to your ear?
The
homemovies of Mr. György Pető is the magic sources of the Free Fall
Oratorio.
The images are recorded from the
late thirties to the sixties, and the original films preserved by the
Private Photo & Film Archives,
Budapest.
Mr.
Pető was a talented violin player, a banker - class lottery businessman
in the southern Hungarian City Szeged. He survived the Jewish Forced
Labor and the Soviet POW camp.
After returning in 1946 he had to
learn, many of his family members - including the mother, son and brother
- were killed. After the brutal war all his property was confiscated,
now by the communist regime in 1949. He escaped with his family to Budapest
and established himself as viola player in the Budapest Operetta Theater
The
text of Free Fall Oratorio is based on Pet family memories, historical
documents and the Hungarian Jewish Laws (1938-1944).
The
live concert oratorio follows the film created by the authors.
"Awards
of Free Fall" Documentary 1996/97 (75 min.):
'BUDAPEST
Film Week' 1997: the 'Best Short and Experimental film' prize
Berlin Prix Europe 1997, the
'Best Non Fiction of the Year'
Marseilles 1997, vue sur le docs,
International Documentary Film Festival
'Grand Prix' and CNC 'Special
Prix'
Leipzig 1997 'FIPRESCI Prize'
Hungarian Film critics prize
1997 'Best Non Fiction Film' and 'Best Music' award
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