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Performance by Sydney Chamber Choir, Paul Stanhope from the CD Osanna |
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CD
Osanna / Clare Maclean ; Sydney Chamber Choir, Paul Stanhope (conductor).
Library shelf no. CD 2239 [Not for loan]
Score
os anthos chortou : as the flower of the grass, for unaccompanied chorus / Clare Maclean
Library shelf no. 782.55542/MAC 4 [Available for loan]
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Work Overview
This piece is a setting of Sappho's fragment 31, and uses a mixture of minor and octatonic modes.
Work Details
Year: 2004
Instrumentation: SSAATTBB choir.
Duration: 4 min.
Difficulty: Advanced
Commission note: Commissioned by St Louis Chamber Chorus.
First performance: by St Louis Chamber Chorus, Philip Barnes — 14 Nov 04. Third Baptist Church, St Louis MO, USA
The work is modal, octatonic.
Text translation: He seems to me to be like the gods that man who sits opposite you and hears you sweetly speaking and pleasantly laughing, for me my heart flutters in my breast when I see you suddenly and it is impossible for me to speak, but my tongue sticks and at once a thin fire runs beneath my skin and my eyes see nothing and my ears roar, and sweat pours down me and trembling seizes me totally and I am greener than grass and I seem to myself little short of dead. but all is bearable, since even a poor man… Translation: Avery Springer
Subjects
- In the form/style of: Modal
Performances of this work
14 Nov 04: Third Baptist Church, St Louis MO, USA. Featuring St Louis Chamber Chorus, Philip Barnes.
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