Denys Bouliane
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Le cactus rieur et la demoiselle qui
souffrait d'une soif insatiable (1986)
Denys Bouliane
bio • works • recordings • samples
Le cactus rieur et la demoiselle qui
souffrait d'une soif insatiable (1986)
Commissioned by: Québec Symphony Orchestra, with the assistance of the Canada Council
Premiered by: l’Orchestre symphonique de Québec, Simon Streatfeild, conductor, Québec, February 16, 1988
“This work narrates the story of a cactus who meets a beautiful young maiden lost in the desert. One only has to imagine this cactus in the grasp of a passionate embrace to be convinced of the humour and the impossibility of this imaginary world. But it is precisely within such a fanciful encounter that Bouliane’s creative fantasy is ignited. So let us be seduced by the characters of the cactus and the maiden and let us listen!”
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