Tag: Susan Reid-Parsons (mezzo soprano)

“HATZVI ISRAEL” EULOGY for Female Voice, Flute, String Quartet, and Harp (1968)

PROGRAM NOTE “Hatzvi Israel” Eulogy for female voice, flute, string quartet and harp was written in 1968 on commission by New York Philharmonic violinist Stanley Hoffman. I wrote it at a pivotal time in my life when I was departing for the first time from the safe and familiar world of tonality, having found myself…
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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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