The Spirit of Liberty
The Spirit of Liberty is a magnificent masterpiece of classical music written specifically for large scale events dedicated to the human struggle for the establishment of freedom and democracy. The enlightening element of music of Karousos is the extreme lyricism.
The musical structure is monothematic and is classified in the work of post-romantic composers as Skriabin, Richard Strauss, Mahler, Ives and Aaron Copland. The composer incorporates impactive sound instrumentation interwoven with a method of intensely attuned diatonic scales and polytonal counterpoints.
The Spirit of Liberty is an avant-garde neo-romantic polyphonic undertaking causing sentiments in the listener as a new realization of art. The composer Panagiotis Karousos using a wide orchestration range extensively uses the cupreous percussion instruments producing sound greatness in a multi-composed Pythagorean mathematic logic with the simplicity of a mastermind.
The gift of its creator to the modern aesthetics of synthetic approach is the presence of a high level of nostalgic emotionalism interwoven with a distinctly extensive polystylistic expressionism. The Spirit of Liberty gives us the sense of an enormous cube that travels slowly into the universe with the planets and galaxies.
The trumpets sound as the beacons of revelation accompanied by a Beethovenian dynamic fight for the human ideals and freedom. The heroic style of music of Panagiotis Karousos is indisputably cemented through the colossal choral finale of the play and the pattern of trombone. Presented here is all the drama of human existence with an incomparable realism.
The Spirit of Liberty is a symphonic poem for a large symphony orchestra, solo trombone and mix choir. In a full version the composer applies also church organ and octabass.
The work was presented in Montreal Canada, at Place des Arts, and in New York 2006 and 2007 under the direction of maestros Silas Huff, Grant Gilman and Andre Gauthier.