Chamber Music Piano,
Voice
SKU:
CF.V2498
For
Mezzo-Soprano and
Piano. Composed by
Frederic Sharaf. SWS.
Performance Score. With
Standard notation. 12
pages. Carl Fischer Music
#V2498. Published by Carl
Fischer Music (CF.V2498).
ISBN 9780825893445.
UPC: 798408093440. 9 x 12
inches. Text: Robert
Lowell. Robert
Lowell.
Robert
Lowell, sixth U.S.. Poet
Laureate, winner of the
1960 National Book Award
(Life Studies), and twice
awarded the Pulitzer
Prize for Poetry, took a
minor detour in 1961 to
ponder the works of
international poets,
writing a set of loose
translations which became
his Imitations - he
considered them
imitations, not
translations, since he
pictured the texts as
being written in current
times in America. Today,
Sharaf takes three
imitations on poems of
Baudelaire to create his
Three Settings for
mezzo-soprano and piano.
About the music, he says,
These settings are atonal
musically, but frequent
appoggiaturas suggest the
resolution of inner
conflict in
Lowell’s life. A
medium tessitura is
suggested for
performance. Texts used
are The Injured Moon,
Meditation, and The
Voyage by Baudelaire,
translated by Robert
Lowell from his Collected
Poems. For advanced
performers.
Robert Carl
