general information

composition date
1977
duration
41 min
editor
Boosey & Hawkes
Dedicatee
à ma mère
Libretto (details, author)

voir noms de parties.

type

Vocal music and instrument(s) (Voice(s) and/or choir(s) and orchestra)

detailed formation

3 flutes (also piccolo), 2 oboes, English horn, 2 clarinets, Eb clarinet, bass clarinet, 2 bassoons, contrabassoon, 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, 4 percussionists [ou 5], harp, piano [ou célesta ou clavier électrique], electric bass guitar [fender], strings

information about the creation

date
October 1977

États-Unis, Washington, D.C., Kennedy Center

interpreters

Clamma Dale : soprano, Rosalind Elias : mezzo-soprano, Neil Rosenshein : ténor, John Reardon : baryton, Donald Gramm : baryton-basse, le National Symphony Orchestra, direction : Leonard Bernstein.

observations

Il existe également une version pour orchestre réduit, arrangée en 1996 par Charlie Harmon, Sid Ramin et George Steel et éditée chez Boosey & Hawkes.

Part titles

I. Sextet : 1. To the Poem (Frank O'Hara) ; II. Three Solos : 2. The Pennycandystore Beyond the El (Lawrence Ferlinghetti) ; 3. A Julia de Burgos (Julia de Burgos) ; 4. To What You Said (Walt Whitman) ; III. Three Ensembles : 5. Duet : I, Too, Sing America (Langston Hughes) / Okay "Negroes" (June Jordan) ; 6. Trio : To My Dear and Loving Husband (Anne Bradstreet) ; 7. Duet : Storyette H.M. (Gertrude Stein) ; IV. Sextet : 8. 'if you can't eat you got to' (E. E. Cummings) ; V. Three Solos : 9. Music I Heard With You (Conrad Aiken) ; 10. Zizi's Lament (Gregory Corso) ; 11. Sonnet : 'What lips my lips have kissed' (Edna St. Vincent Millay) ; VI. Sextet : 12. Israfel (Edgar Allan Poe).


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