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(a short musical portrait of the character Hamm from Samuel Beckett's Endgame for violinist-performance artist and piano)
1. General Description 2. PDF Score 3. YouTube (audio with visual still) 4. Audio Recording
William Bouton, violinist performance-artist Leonore Hall, piano William Osborne, direction Recorded by the Bayerischer Runkfunk at the Nacht der Experimentelle Musik, November 1983
The text for this work is taken from Samuel Beckett's play Endgame whose main character is named Hamm. As with most Beckett works, Endgame can be interpreted in relation to Dante. Hamm is a vivid example of the intellectual pride that Dante saw as heresy and violence against God. A blind cripple, he violently expresses his contempt for all the hell surrounding him with the words, “Clear away this muck! Chuck it into the sea!” In Canto XIII, the forest of suicides, Pier delle Vigne demonstrates the exact and legal-sounding language of a careful, methodical lawyer whose sense of logic and justice was so trampled upon that he could no longer bear it. Hamm’s world view is similar, but he maintains his dignity by refusing to end the game of life.
2. PDF Score
To download the PDF score click here. (6 MB)
3. Video Score
William Bouton, perfromance-artist and violinist Leonore Hall, piano William Osborne, direction
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