Tag: Lucy Shelton (soprano)

MOON SONGS – A Song Cycle in Four Acts for Soprano, Flute (doubling Piccolo), Cello, and Piano (2011)

PROGRAM NOTE The invitation from flute virtuoso Mimi Stillman to compose a work for her Dolce Suono Ensemble’s Mahler/Schoenberg 2012 concert series that could serve as an homage as well as a companion piece to Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire, one of the 20th-century’s seminal compositions, was as challenging as it was intriguing. It would seem almost…
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O THE CHIMNEYS for female voice, ensemble, and tape (1969)

PROGRAM NOTE O The Chimneys is a setting of five poems by Nelly Sachs, the great German-Jewish 1966 Nobel Prize co-winner in literature, whose writing concerned itself almost entirely with the subject of the holocaust. Composed in 1969, the work was my personal way of saying, through my own art, ‘do not forget’. I selected…
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