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Mark Statman
Vocal
Song Cycles with Instrumental Ensemble
Starfish at Pescadero
Song Cycles
And He'll Be Mine
at least a moment
echoes
Sweet Briar Songs
Three Miniatures of Emily Dickinson
Three Poems of Thomas Hardy
till night is overgone
Individual Songs
A Glimpse
Among the Multitude
Drinking Alone with the Moon
Fallen
It's all I have to bring
Lullaby for a Young Road
O Tan-faced Prairie Boy
The Untold Want
Thou Reader
To a Western Boy
To You (Let us twain walk aside)
To You (Stranger! if you passing, meet me)
Twilight
echoes (2008)
song cycle for soprano and piano
Duration
15'00"
Premiere
19 August 2008
Staunton Music Festival 2008
Julia Turnbull, soprano
Matthew Stevens, piano
First Presbyterian Church
Staunton, VA
Staunton Music Festival 2008
Julia Turnbull, soprano
Matthew Stevens, piano
First Presbyterian Church
Staunton, VA
Movements
1. conspiracy
2. translating Garcia Lorca
3. people shouting
4. inevitable
5. perfect
6. Kenneth's death
2. translating Garcia Lorca
3. people shouting
4. inevitable
5. perfect
6. Kenneth's death
Commissioner
commissioned for the 2008 Staunton Music Festival Emerging Composers Program
Catalog
T82-V2008-1
Notes
echoes was composed over a period of several weeks in May-July 2008 for the Staunton Music Festival. The cycle uses six poems by New York poet Mark Statman, who I met while in residence in March 2007 at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in Amherst, VA.
Last updated: 2010-04-21 14:47:30
