Shortly before this suite was recorded, Previte's producer pointed him to an article by composer Georges Antheil. This is a fantastic summation of Miró's work and, some seventy-one years later, might be applied to this music as well:
- The classic world of music, in vogue up until today, with its exact limits and placings, and its taste always within a certain classic geometry is a music made up of wood and plaster colored with the imitation colors of a faded Athens. This exactness and lack of play does not permit the music to dream. The lesson that Miró has taught us is not be afraid of music, or its bite, even if the line doubles back upon us, and perhaps in certain cases annihilates us. Here we have a rubber music, dreaming unashamedly, delicately breathing, inflating and deflating, like a being sleeping or the suns cooling. Let us examine the objects in the sky, abolish the constellations, and consider the light years between each and every planet. I love Miró's music and I hope that he might like my attempts at drawing lines such as his own, or at least to forgive the plagiarism.
Previte's response? "Amen to that, brother."
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1 - Shark
For more on Miro a good place to start