This road to Baghdad
...des pas sur le sable
2003
Instruments:
2 channel stereo Durata:
5'20” Commission:
Amici della Musica di Cagliari for the ”Intorno a Debussy” concert organized by Lucio Garau First performance:
Cagliari, Italy, 7/6 2003 Notes:
Six quotations from twenty minutes of the televisions reports on the Iraqi war 2003.
Publisher:
the composer
Program Note
1. "We've seen some extraordinary pictures as we traveled this road to Baghdad."
2. "We had a radio with one station: Official State Baghdad Radio. It was telling us 'everything was normal'."
3. "Four thousand troops came to the outskirts of Baghdad. We lost one soldier in the fighting. They lost. / we saw hundreds of dead Iraqis and they were probably hundreds more, well over thousand..."
4. "...most of the Iraqi attacks are virtually suicidal."
5. "We saw. / We went basically through a battlefield and saw a lot of the horrors of war: destroyed vehicles. / dead Iraqi soldiers by the road side."
6. "Well let's get the latest now on market reaction to all these news. It's over to Sally..."