Baritone Voice and Piano SKU: BT.PMC3865 Baritone and piano. Compo...(+)
Baritone Voice and Piano
SKU: BT.PMC3865
Baritone and
piano. Composed by
Morten Lauridsen. Score
Only. Composed 2011. 12
pages. Peermusic
Classical #PMC3865.
Published by Peermusic
Classical (BT.PMC3865).
The Two Songs
on American Poems were
composed in late May and
early June of 2011 by
candlelight at my rustic
waterfront cabin on a
remote island off the
northwest coast of
Washington State. It was
in this locale that I
havecompleted a number of
works over the years,
including the Lux
Aeterna, O Magnum
Mysterium, Nocturnes,
Canticle/O Vos Omnes and
others. Prayer was
written in memory of
Michael Jasper Gioia,
Dana and Mary Gioia's
infant son, whosebrief
life was tragically ended
by SIDS.Mr. Gioia served
as Chair of the National
Endowment for the Arts
from 2003-2010 and has
authored several books of
poems, numerous
anthologies, articles,
essays and two opera
libretti. Amonghis many
awards are the American
Book Award and
Presidential Citizens
Medal. He currently holds
the Judge Widney Chair of
Poetry and Public Policy
at the University of
Southern California. Sure
on this Shining Night was
originallycomposed as a
choral piece, the third
movement of my Nocturnes
on poems by Rilke, Neruda
and Agee. Rod Gilfry, an
international star of
opera, recital and
musical theater,
premiered the mixed duet
version with his
daughter, Carin,in 2009.
He is Professor of Vocal
Studies at the USC
Thornton School of Music.
Both he and Mr. Gioia are
national treasures. The
Two Songs are designed as
a pair but may be sung
independently - when
paired, Sure On This
ShiningNight should begin
immediatelyfollowing the
final, sustained chord of
Prayer with no break in
between the songs. Both
of these songs, premiered
by Mr. Gilfry accompanied
by the composer at a USC
Visions & Voices tribute
to DanaGioia on September
27, 2011, have their
roots in the American
musical theater and
should be sung as
such.
(Voice and Piano) SKU: HL.48186452 Composed by Gabriel Faure. Leduc. Soft...(+)
(Voice and Piano)
SKU:
HL.48186452
Composed
by Gabriel Faure. Leduc.
Softcover. 47 pages.
Alphonse Leduc #AL30692.
Published by Alphonse
Leduc (HL.48186452).
UPC: 888680828363.
9.0x12.0x0.192
inches.
Widely
acclaimed by music lovers
for over a century,
Selected Songs of
Gabriel Faure (1845-1924)
are here collected into
an anthology, complete
with an audio version in
the form of a download
card. Excerpted from the
1st collection published
in 1879, Au bord de l?eau
and Ici bas bestow an
aura of internal reverie
on Sully Prudhomme?s
simple poems, made
palpable by the harmonic
refinement and vocal
fluidity that constitutes
the very essence of
Faurean
charm. Several vocal
pages selected in the 2nd
volume (1897) continue to
be favourites: Les Roses
d?Ispahan restored to
their dreamy stillness,
Les Berceaux whose
oscillation evokes the
swaying of boats, and the
very nostalgic Clair de
lune in which Verlaine?s
words, set to music for
the first time, inspired
Faure to write what would
become one of his
masterpieces: La Bonne
Chanson. From this
cycle, drunk on lovelorn
lyricism, the collection
retains Puisque l?aube
grandit, an exalted
melody if there ever was
one, and La lune blanche
luit dans les bois, a
nocturnal landscape in F
sharp major ? two pearls
that distil the same
mystery of solace..
