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Performance by Helen Zhibing Huang, Ada Arumeh Kim Lowery from the CD Songs for a Day |
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Work Overview
Louriana Lourilee is a gothic epic ballad for soprano and piano. Drawing from the Victorian spiritualist practice of communing with the dead, the poem places us into a ghostly world of garden paths, china roses, and swinging boughs, all of which appear to us like lifeless tableaux of Victorian bourgeois life - a life that would be shattered by the onset of WWI. The moto perpetuo of the dazzling piano reminds us of the excessive ornamentation of this era, like intricate lace work it covers a darker truth - that of loneliness, nostalgia, and a fading past, as the protagonist contemplates the depth of his grief and his state of endless isolation.
Work Details
Year: 2014
Instrumentation: Soprano, piano.
Duration: 7 min.
Difficulty: Advanced — challenging piano & vocal writing
Commission note: Commissioned by Lourdes Cossich in 2013
First performance: by Madeline Cain, Daniel Pesca — 12 Nov 14. Kilbourn Hall, The Eastman School of Music, Rochester, NY USA
The composer notes the following styles, genres, influences, etc associated with this work:
English art song, Benjamin Britten
Performances of this work
13 Oct 2019: at Songs for a Day (SCEGGS Great Hall). Featuring Helen Zhibing Huang, Ada Arumeh Kim Lowery.
12 Nov 14: Kilbourn Hall, The Eastman School of Music, Rochester, NY USA. Featuring Madeline Cain, Daniel Pesca.
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