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- Donnacha Dennehy
A Fatal Optimist (2008)
- G Schirmer Inc (World)
- 4 instruments [variable], percussion, piano
- 4 min
Programme Note
Composer Note:
Francis Bacon: But I’m profoundly optimistic about nothing.
Melvyn Bragg: How can you be optimistic about nothing, Francis?
Francis Bacon: I can be.
Melvyn Bragg: Why?
Francis Bacon: Just existing for a moment. Existing today makes me optimistic.
Melvyn Bragg: Optimistic about what?
Francis Bacon: Nothing!
(a slightly drunken conversation between the two of them, captured on the South Bank Show)
— Donnacha Dennehy