Audio Sample
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Performance by Kevin Hanrahan, Diana Blom from the CD Songs by Diana Blom. |
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Score
The library : tenor and piano / Diana Blom ; text by Peter Goldsworthy.
Library shelf no. 783.87542/BLO 1 [Not for loan]
Work Overview
Peter Goldsworthy's novel, Maestro (1989), tells of the
search, by a teenage boy from Darwin, for information about the
past of his elderly Viennese piano teacher, Herr Keller. The
story follows the search through to the stack shelves of the
Barr-Smith Library at Adelaide University where the chosen text
and the events for the library episode take place.
Written for Brett Weymark's animated performance persona and
clear diction, The Library gives both singer and pianist
opportunities for evocative story-telling through recitative and
song styles allowing the singing and telling of the story maximum
flexibility and mobility. There are melodic and harmonic motives
linking places and
actions of the story within an overall musical arch shape.
Brett Weymark gave the first Australian performance and Kevin
Hanrahan the first in the USA.
Work Details
Year: 1996
Instrumentation: Tenor voice, piano.
Duration: 11 min.
Difficulty: Advanced
Written for: Brett Weymark
Analysis
Resonate article: Diana Blom - composer & animateur by Michael Hannan
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