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Score
To the evening star : five songs for soprano and piano / Andrew Schultz
Library shelf no. 783.66547/SCH 1 [Available for loan]
Work Overview
Five songs to settings of texts by Yeats, Hopkins, Longfellow, Davies and Blake on themes of escape, freedom and time passing.
Work Details
Year: 2009
Instrumentation: Soprano, piano.
Duration: 17 min.
Difficulty: Advanced — Tertiary student level
Contents note: 1. Lake Isle of Innisfree (text by William Butler Yeats) (4 min., 40 sec.) -- 2. Pied beauty (text by Gerard Manley Hopkins) (1 min.) -- 3. Mezzo Cammin (text by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) (4 min.) -- 4. Money, O! (text by W H Davies) (2 min., 30 sec.) -- 5. To the evening star (text by William Blake) (4 min.).
Commission note: Commissioned for Margaret Schindler, Stephen Emmerson with funds provided by Australia Council.. Commisioned by an Australia Council Composer Fellowship, 2009-2010
First performance: by Stephen Emmerson, Margaret Schindler at Bangalow Music Festival Concert 5 (A&I Hall) on 15 Aug 2009
Analysis
Resonate article: 2009 Paul Lowin Awards Prizewinners Announced! by Australian Music Centre
Subjects
- In the form/style of: Song Cycles
Performances of this work
16 Aug 09: featuring Stephen Emmerson, Flinders String Quartet.
15 Aug 2009: at Bangalow Music Festival Concert 5 (A&I Hall). Featuring Stephen Emmerson, Margaret Schindler.
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