The Stars And The Roses

For Tenor And Orchestra

för:

Röst (tenor), piano

Utgåva:

Vokalpartitur

Artikelnr.:

1623702

Författare / kompositör:

Steven Stucky

Omfattning:

32 sidor

Varaktighet :

13 minuter

Publiceringsår:

2016

Förlag / Tillverkare:

Theodore Presser

Tillverkarens nr.:

PRLK 14140088

UPC:

0680160625406

Beskrivning

When commissioned by UC Berkeley to compose a major work, Steven Stucky turned to the poetry of Lithuanian-Polish poet Czeslaw Milosz. One of Stucky's favorite writers, Milosz fled to the US in 1960, and joined the Berkeley faculty in 1961. He was still at Berkeley, his poems still banned back home in Poland, when he won the Nobel Prize in 1980. Many of his poems are dark, and some deal with the Holocaust. The Stars and the Roses sets three lighter, more lyrical poems for tenor and orchestra: "Happiness," "The Sun," and "The Bird Kingdom," texts positively aglow with joy and tenderness. Written for the Curtis 20/21 Contemporary Music Ensemble and the CurtisComposer-in-Residence Program, with funding from the Musical Fund Society.