Duration
15"
Text
Mark Statman
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echoes (2008)
six songs for soprano and piano
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Duration
15"
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Text
Mark Statman
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Instrumentation
soprano and piano
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Movements
1. conspiracy
2. translating Garcia Lorca 3. people shouting 4. inevitable 5. perfect 6. Kenneth's death |
Commissioner
Staunton Music Festival Emerging Composers Program
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Premiere
19 August 2008
Staunton Music Festival 2008 Julia Turnbull, soprano Matthew Stevens, piano First Presbyterian Church Staunton, VA |
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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.
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