Chamber Music Viola, Violin 1, Violin 2, Violoncello, baritone voice SKU: PR....(+)
Chamber Music Viola,
Violin 1, Violin 2,
Violoncello, baritone
voice
SKU:
PR.14140086S
For
Baritone And String
Quartet. Composed by
David Leisner. Text by
Rosemary Thomas.
Premiere: Thomas
Meglioranza, baritone,
and Enso String Quartet;
Symphony Space, New York,
NY. Contemporary. Full
score. With Standard
notation. Composed 2004.
28 pages. Duration 8:30.
Theodore Presser Company
#141-40086S. Published by
Theodore Presser Company
(PR.14140086S).
UPC:
680160618392. 9 x 12
inches. Text: Rosemary
Thomas. Rosemary Thomas.
Text by Rosemary
Thomas.
Composed in
2004 for baritone
Wolfgang Holzmair,
Leisner's A Timeless
Procession was premiered
in 2011 with Thomas
Meglioranza and the ENSO
String Quartet at
Symphony Space (New York
City). Of that premiere,
Art Leonard writes, The
centerpiece of the
program was the world
premiere of Mr. Leisner's
composition for baritone
and string quartet, A
Timeless Procession,
setting a lengthy
narrative poem by
Rosemary Thomas about the
parade of elephants past
Carngie Hall when the
circus came to town. This
provided a nice balance
of drama and humor... Of
the music, itself,
Leisner says, [Rosemary
Thomas'] poem, The
Elephants Pass Carnegie
Hall, begins with an
image, maybe real, maybe
surreal, of circus
elephants parading by
Carnegie Hall, and ends
with a sharp, mystical
left turn into the
prehistoric times of
their ancestors. My piece
views the poem through
the lens of time -
beginning with a
primordial awakening,
progressing into real
time (the parade of
elephants), and then
through slow motion,
frozen time, a return to
real time (but with a
surreal overlay of
baritone falsetto), and
finally, in the canonic
last section, time past.
For advanced
performers.
