(Voice and Piano)
SKU:
HL.48186445
Composed
by Betsy Jolas. Leduc.
Post-1900. Softcover.
Alphonse Leduc #AL30681.
Published by Alphonse
Leduc (HL.48186445).
UPC: 888680829384.
9x12
inches.
“'Wha
t's important in music
that's based on a poem '
on the emotion inspired
by a poem ' is the music
and power of emotion it
harbours within itself'.
These words, written in
1949 by poet Pierre
Reverdy, would make a
deep impression on
composer Betsy Jolas.
She'd just sent the
writer her Six
mélodies for
mezzo-soprano and piano
composed on poems from
his masterwork Plupart du
temps. The songs were
accompanied by a letter
that betrayed her fear of
distorting his ideas. In
creative terms, there was
no need to worry ' Betsy
Jolas must have placed
this conviction at the
heart of her reflection
on the relation between
text and music. Nearly
sixty years later, the
musician decided to take
several fragments of
these beloved poems of
Reverdy and place them,
in the form of
quotations, into new
musical and theatrical
perspectives. The exalted
memory of the words led
to D'Un Journal D'Amour,
a mini-cantata for Voice
and Alto offered as a
wedding gift to soprano
Eliette
Prévôt and
violist Antoine Tamestit,
who premiered it together
in Montreuil in
2010.&rdquo.
