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\n \n About work:

Every person has some experience that has a strong impact on his or her whole life. It might influence his or her attitude and opinions to the enviroment, even though the person does not realise it. However, I do realise that. Therefore, in this collage, I would like to express my humble and respectful admiration of the Slovak popular music of the last twenty or thirty years. Without these songs (and everyday work of the Bratislava Radio orchestra that ceases the existence at present), I think my life and my work wouldn´t be the same as it is now. I am aware that I might be accused (as in so many cases before) of simplifying the situation. However, there is another question that will definitely rise: Whose work is it, whose ideas? I answer proudly and without hesitation: It´s the work of meastros, not mine! I´ve only brushed i tup, shown it to people, because it has almost been forgotten. People have started turning away from it like a bad step-mother. They are unfaithful and that´s not good!

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When I was pondering over the form of the variations there arouse several possibilities, of course:

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1. to use a theme and work with it „in my own way“;

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2. to use several themes and not work with it;

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3. to use one, or more themes and adjust them sometimes more and sometimes less, or adjust them, more or less;

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4. to use a theme (or themes) and work with them like the maestros would do;

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5. to use a theme (or themes) and work with them like the maestros wouldn´t do;

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6. to relate themes to similar ones (e.g., to Russian music-hall and circus melodies, Alla Pugachevova songs, or approaches to melos and ethos, etc.).

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In a word, there was an infinite range of approaches, from which I had to choose. Finally, I made up my mind – the diamond should be set on a neutral background, so that its beauty can glimmer the most. Of course, it wasn´t an original idea. However, I just simply felt that it was the inevitable solution, it was simply the right one (and simple, as well). I´m not even sure whether this approach can be called „additive variations“. It´s rather my humble commentary expressing my thankfulness. Therefore, you should understand the piano part as my attempt to express the commentary, without which the compositions would do, as they did for years, that´s for sure. I do not want to analyse other two instruments, for I do not want to insinuate any of possible interpretations. I would like to thank to all the composers and I believe they will accept my admiration with understanding. Finally, I would like to thank to the management of the Slovak Radio in Bratislava for their ability to differentiate the masterpieces form the rest of compositions and their ability to keep the right persons at the right positions. To find a diagnosis is impossible without quotating and description of symptoms.


\n (author, in: Bulletin Melos-Ethos 1993, p. 194 – 195)
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