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Performance by Robert MacFarlane, Stephen Whittington from the CD Selected Works by AMC Represented Artists, vol. 114. |
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CD
Selected Works by AMC Represented Artists, vol. 114.
Library shelf no. CD 3105 [Available for loan]
Score
Songs of sorrow : three settings of poems by Edna St Vincent Millay / Anne Cawrse.
Library shelf no. 783.87547/CAW 1 [Available for loan]
Work Overview
Songs of Sorrow is a cycle of three songs, using poetry by the American poet Edna St Vincent Millay. The texts and the resultant music speak of strength in the face of disaster, of death, war, loss, conviction and of hope.
The three poems set are 'Conscientious Objector', 'Dirge Without Music' and 'Lament'.
Work Details
Year: 2012
Instrumentation: Tenor, piano.
Duration: 14 min.
Difficulty: Advanced
Contents note: Conscientious objector -- Dirge -- Lament.
Written for: Stephen Whittington, Robert MacFarlane
First performance: by Robert MacFarlane, Stephen Whittington — 14 May 12. Pilgrim Uniting Church, Flinders Street, Adelaide.
Subjects
- In the form/style of: Song Cycles
Performances of this work
14 May 12: Pilgrim Uniting Church, Flinders Street, Adelaide.. Featuring Robert MacFarlane, Stephen Whittington.
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