More music on the Music page 06/12/2010
I added parts from Four Poems and The Name on the Door to the Music page. These were recorded at the Perspectives recital, June 4, 2010, at the Artist's Inn Residence in Washington, DC. Check them out! CommentsLeave a Reply | CategoriesAll I've re-thought what I'm doing with the song cycle. It's going to be slightly more Rorem-esque in scope than I had originally planned, but I think it'll still go fairly quickly.
The song cycle is now called "Love is Not the Last Room," a line from the last poem of the set. It will be for soprano, mezzo-soprano, tenor, and baritone soloists, with a piano accompaniment. Each singer will have 3 solos. There is also a finale quartet, and there will be an intro and a few transitions with various groupings of the singers based on material from the quartet. All in all there will be 18 movements, but many are around a minute long. I have three pieces done so far- "Oh, Every Day that Dawns" (soprano... previously written, but recycled for this), "A Cry" (soprano), "Singers" (tenor). I'm also pretty much done with the vocal line for the final quartet- it just needs some tweaking and for the piano part to be fleshed out. Several other songs are sketched out a bit, too. More details once I have them!  The BlogHere I'll write about what I'm working on, how it's going, what I'm listening to, or anything that seems to pop into my head. ArchivesAugust 2010 |
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