Tag: Shulamit Ran (piano)

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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CONCERT PIECE FOR PIANO AND ORCHESTRA (1970)

PROGRAM NOTE [The following note was written in 1991 for the program book of the performances by the Cleveland Orchestra with pianist Alan Feinberg and Christoph von Dohnányi, conductor.] In retrospect, twenty-one years later, it seems that 1960’s and 1970’s bashing has become a favorite past time activity for a great many composers at this…
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