 | Locks, Stephen - Remember Voix Soprano, Orchestre |
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| Compositeur : Editeur : | Locks, Stephen | ||||
| Instrumentation : | Voix Soprano, Orchestre | ||||
| Genre : | Classique | ||||
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| Auteur/Parolier: | Christina Rossetti | ||||
| Date : | 2019 | ||||
| Droit d'auteur : | Creative Commons Licence | ||||
| Ajoutée par stevelocks, 29 Mai 2019 I was at a local concert and hadn't seen the program beforehand so I was pleasantly surprised to see the soloist in Berlioz Les nuits d'ete was a friend. I knew she was a singer but didn't know she did solo work and I heard later this was the first time she had sung with an orchestra. I was sitting right at the front and was only a few feet from her. When she spotted me she gave me her water bottle to look after which she swigged from between movements. I'd not heard this piece before and was very impressed both with the performance and the composition. (It is only a small amateur orchestra but they played very well). When I got home I listened to the Berlioz again with the score and thought it sounded very advanced for its time and for being an early opus number. I thought I could see presaged in it elements that would be well developed by the great late romantic composers of big orchestral songs. About a year previously I'd sketched the opening 90 seconds of a setting of Christina Rossetti's "Remember" for soprano and string orchestra. At the time this was for a competition but I was too busy then to spend enough time on it so I'd put it to one side, much as I'd liked the opening and had the feeling I should do something with it eventually. After hearing the Berlioz I was inspired to pick this sketch up again, to orchestrate it for the same small orchestra I'd just heard and to finish it off, which took just a week to do (in a few evenings) as I felt quite driven to write this and had a compelling feeling for how it should go. I'm familiar with the orchestral songs of Finzi, R. Strauss, Mahler and Schoenberg's Gurrelieder and I feel there are touches of some of these influences in this piece. Although the poem is about loss through death it is also quite life affirming, so I wanted to reflect that. It starts quite plaintively where the poem asks the surviving loved one to remember the other when dead but then later asks not to grieve or to remember if that causes suffering. You'll notice the score includes words in italics near the end for some instrumental parts. This is not for then to sing but to remind them that the motifs they are playing at the end are from the "do not grieve" section (BTW the "do not grieve"section was from a little sketch I made separately months ago and thought I must use this in something). I felt including the do not grieve music within the finishing words "Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad" worked within the sense of the poem to round the music off (and made for some nice gentle suspensions). Earlier I also I couldn't resist using the half octave changing direction on the words "half turn". Most of my music is pretty light-hearted and I wanted to try something serious for a change, so this is it. Source / Web : | Steve Locks Compositions | | |||
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