Antonio Martinez

Alternative title

Avignon: Ragtime pour L'âme Mousseuse

Composer

Antonio Martinez

Publisher

Antonio Martinez

Genre

Jazz / Ragtime

Instrumentation

Piano

Scored for

Solo

Type of score

For a single performer

Key

D flat major

Duration

4'0"

Difficulty

Very difficult

Year of composition

2020

Description
This is the sixty-eighth destination in the collection of the series "Ragtime at the Red-Light District." This piece is set at Avignon’s Bourg Neuf.

The main character in this piece is a 29-year old food critic. This individual has written many bizarre critiques about food over the past four years, and these stories are so attractive that even a professor emeritus once commented on the main character’s taste buds to be “the most cunning west of the Mediterranean.” Among the notable dishes commented included an ouzo-drenched pheasant with kosher rutabaga succotash and a bilberry-infused non-alcoholic Chardonnay. Also, the main character is a savant at recreating dishes and even cracking secret recipes. As a consequence, the main character decided to showcase more eccentricities abroad.

The main character decided to visit Avignon on a whim and bring the ingredients overseas. First, the main character fed residents tamarind-flavored celery sticks with ranch along Rue de la Republique. Newlyweds at Hotel d’Europe and clergy at Palais des Papes feasted on the pistachio-crusted lamb with white asparagus and black raspberry ice cream. However, it was at Parc des Sports where the main character featured a recent innovation – a blue tomato destined to eradicate impotence and increase births tenfold. Fans attending a Six Nations rugby match flocked to the concessions stands, including representatives from the International Association of the Mediterranean Tomato, who demanded the prized fruit’s secret recipe.

The main character refused and sprinted away from the representatives before a power walk to Bourg Neuf. There, the main character noticed a working lady who appeared anorexic and emaciated due to eating only nine times a week. Fortunately, the main character carried a suitcase of food and found a nearby makeshift kitchen to cook another concoction. The main character cooked a buffalo-flavored steak with polenta and asparagus for the lady; after the first time, the woman had a flashback where she reminisced this same meal her mother would cook for her while growing up in New Haven, Connecticut. The woman began to cry because no person before the main character helped bring back a part of her childhood that work had repressed in her memory. So the main character and the lady spent the evening with another hearty meal and dessert.

This piece had a format of 4AABBCC4ADD4A'. Louis Moreau Gottschalk's "Bamboula", Johann Sebastian Bach's Prelude in C-sharp major from Book 1 "Well-Tempered Clavier" and Clara Schumann's Piano Trio Op. 17 were the inspiration for this melody.

Upload date

03.05.2020