SKU:
HL.1139323
For
Voice and Guitar.
Composed by Josephine
Stephenson. Vocal.
Softcover. Alphonse Leduc
#AL30897. Published by
Alphonse Leduc
(HL.1139323).
ISBN
9781705183922. UPC:
196288114871.
From
a short French poem by
Antoine Thiollier,
Stephenson uses an
Oulipian process to
amalgamate the words with
similar sounding English
words to gradually
abstract the meaning
behind them; the words
seemingly melt into
musical sounds. The
hypnotic nature of the
guitar writing allows
this to happen almost
imperceptibly with long
phrases of sustained
emotional atmosphere
rising and falling quite
naturally before the
music appears to gently
evaporate at the close.
The way in which the two
languages merge is a
touching reflection of
the fact that Stephenson
and (Heloise) Werner,
friends since childhood
in Paris, both moved to
the UK to study and there
continued their long
friendship. (Colin
Alexander).
