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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