Rahilia Hasanova

for soprano, baritone, percussion, bass clarinet, and clarinet in A, Bb, and Eb

ca. 56'16"

A kitchen lives by its own life even when nobody is home. It breathes, smells, yawns, flinches, claps, and snaps...and listens to... If only you are in your kitchen you are not alone. Your kitchen always has an encrypted dialog with you. If only two of you in the kitchen you are three of you, not two because your kitchen accompanies all your conversations. And keep in mind that your kitchen, where you usually have all your vitally important discussions is not your friend at some point. The kitchen likes a justice. If you are going to tell something to somebody start your conversation from far away. Choose any topic that would not relates to a subject of your previously planned conversation. For example, a long analysis about the history of the evolution of clocks... pendulum clocks! Magnetize! Make a magic! Win! Note that at 40.30 - 41.50 the stage suddenly darkened. Unfortunately the video cannot gives the real sparkling motions that accompany this scene on the stage during live performance.

Opera for two performers, Pendulum Clocks was premiered at the UMBC festival of contemporary music LIVEWIRE-10 on October 26, 2019.

Libretto by Rahilia Hasanova

Performers: Susan Botti, soprano and Gleb Kanasevich, clarinets

Recording engineer: Alan Wonneberger

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Rahilia Hasanova

for chamber orchestra, soprano, and tenor

ca. 35'00"

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Rahilia Hasanova

for flute, oboe, clarinet in Bb, bassoon, string quartet, piano, and chorus

ca. 15'35"

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Rahilia Hasanova

for flute, bass clarinet, percussion, chorus

ca. 60'00"

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Rahilia Hasanova

for choir and chamber orchestra

ca. 7'00"

This music was inspired by a poem by Jamila Asgar:

The snow is painting white on gray,

The sky brings angels out to pray;

The snow is painting white on brown,

The sky is gently falling down.

I hear the whispers in the play,

I hear the sweetest ever sound,

As sky is falling gently down,

The snow brings angels' prayers today.

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Rahilia Hasanova

for soprano and violin

ca. 22'00"

On thin Air is a little drama for soprano and violin. I believe that many of us might have experienced something that is unusually strange or unexplainably unreal… Just one time in your life you might feel something that you never felt before or after… At such a moment you understand that everything that created around the holographic existence is bigger and deeper than you would be able to observe and absorb. At such a fleeting instant you are surrounded by the wonder… At such an astonishing flash your the only sensation is the admiration!

If you are endlessly high...

Suspended on thin air...

You contemplate the stars,

You can't reach Earth...

You try to understand what are you doing here?

If your breath is too short and almost frozen

You feel you're helpless at such position,

You know you're hopeless at such condition...

You hear your inner wordless scream!

If you are endlessly high...

If you can smell and taste the air...

You see gold sparkles through indescribable blue color

Your heart is not inside of you...

Your brain is not responding to you...

Your blood is desperately cold

Bombarding your brain by isotopes of thoughts,

Trying to stop all these and comprehend...

Are you alive?

If you are endlessly high...

Nothing above, beneath, and all around...

Nothing is up...Nothing is down...

And you try to connect your toes and ground

Willing to calm your tremor...

Am I flying or am I motionless?

Am I sensing margis between my dream and death?

No... No... it can't be..

No... No... No... No... your feelings are so real...

If you are endlessly high suspended on thin air

You have to feel a little fear and unexpected joy...

 - Rahilia Hasanova

On Thin Air was premiered at Linnehan concert hall of the University of Maryland Baltimore County on October 20, 2023 by Duo Della Luna.

Susan Botti, soprano

Airi Yoshioka, violin

Recording engineer, Alan Wonneberger

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Rahilia Hasanova

for orchestra

ca. 15'30"

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