Carolyn Yarnell

 

The Same Sky

CAROLYN YARNELL THE SAME SKY (2000)
for piano, soundtrack, and video

The Same Sky was commissioned by Kathleen Supové as part of the national series of works sponsored by Meet The Composer/Arts Endowment Commissioning Music/USA. It is scored for piano, electronically recorded track and video.

In addition to writing the piece, Carolyn Yarnell had the ingenious and groundbreaking idea to include a video inside the piano lid, a 21st Century homage to the paintings and inscriptions found inside harpsichord lids. The video footage was captured by software visionary Eric Wenger. The piece is deeply influenced by a trip that Yarnell took to Tunisia.

About the title, she writes: “I  was watching a movie one night, the setting was an amazing 14th century Venetian Gothic Palazzo overlooking the Grand Canal. On the landing of a white marble staircase was a table with an enormous vase filled with flowers, a window beside…..I found myself wishing that I lived somewhere like that…and then the picture panned across the ornate wall and out the open window into a stunningly beautiful sky. In that moment I realized that no matter what we may possess in this life, we all share the same sky.”