Chamber Music Clarinet, Contrabass, Cornet, Flute, Mezzo-soprano voice, Narrator...(+)
Chamber Music Clarinet,
Contrabass, Cornet,
Flute, Mezzo-soprano
voice, Narrator,
Percussion, Trombone,
Viola, Violoncello,
soprano voice, soprano
Saxophone
SKU:
CF.CY3160F
Full
Score. Composed by
Martin Bresnick.
Contemporary. Full score.
With Standard notation.
Composed 1982. 62 pages.
Duration 15 minutes. Carl
Fischer Music #CY3160F.
Published by Carl Fischer
Music (CF.CY3160F).
ISBN 9780825886591.
UPC: 798408086596. 8.5 x
11
inches.
Bresnick's
multi-media work for
three singers, an actor,
instrumental ensemble,
and shadow puppets tells
a Russian folk tale about
a dangerous incident
along the railroad. It is
in Russian, Yiddish, and
English. Der Signal has
been performed (and
championed) by Le Train
Bleu, and ensemble formed
and conducted by Ransom
Wilson.. Der Signal is,
as Bresnick allows, low
art, which was
misconstrued by music
critics, leading directly
to Bresnick's later
composition, High Art.
Perhaps the use of shadow
puppets should have been
a clue. Duration:
15'.