Strophe 2

" Strophe 2 " for B flat clarinet and piano was commissioned by the International Music Students Festival  and it is the second piece of a cycle which I wrote for small formation based on a poetic argument. For this one, it is a short cut by a poem of  Léopold Sédar Senghor extracted from the “Elegy of Midnight” :
"Et si c'était cela l'enfer, l'absence de sommeil ce désert du poète Cette douleur de vivre, ce mourir de ne pas mourir".
Atmosphere is quiet here and interiorized, but seems little by little won by the excitement :  Lines become stretch out every time a little more, towards a breaking point which means the end of any thing.