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La Riviere San Socle

from 38​.​627​,​-​90​.​194 by Commonwealth

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Composed and Performed by Kevin Buckley

Inspired by the Aristide Maillol sculpture

We as humans typically celebrate strength. We find vulnerability very uncomfortable and often equate it to weakness. We hide those vulnerable moments from others. We apologize for crying or for showing any authentic emotion, we project facades of happiness when all we feel is sadness. We rarely ever know what another person is struggling with at any given time and we certainly won’t reveal our heaviest burdens to them.

That is why Kevin Buckley’s score for Aristide Maillol’s La Riviere is so unique. This spacious and pensive composition maps the internal world of a woman about whom we know nothing, but can make certain assumptions given the vulnerable pose she strikes. Something has happened that forces her pose, but we are too uncomfortable to ask why. We avert our eyes. That vulnerability and its accompanying feelings of unease are very clear in Buckley’s melancholy melody.

- Benjamin Kaplan
St. Louis, 2014

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from 38​.​627​,​-​90​.​194, released July 1, 2014
Composed and Performed by Kevin Buckley

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Commonwealth, founded by artists Benjamin Kaplan and Chris Grabau and, “is an approach to making art that comes in response to our surroundings,” says Grabau. Kaplan adds, “St. Louis is a city of neighborhoods, both geographically and psychologically. We live in our neighborhoods. And we see Commonwealth as a way to expand that neighborhood.” ... more

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