![]() ![]() While the integral cycle makes a superb addition to any program, the movements can be excerpted according to your available vocal forces: Soprano: A Julia de Burgos Mezzo-soprano: Music I Heard with You Alto: What My Lips Have Kissed Tenor: Zizi’s Lament Baritone: The Penny Candy Store… Bass: To What You Said Soprano and bass: Storyette H. cummings, and others, touching in typical fashion on love, social issues, the joys and trials of daily life, and the creative impulse itself. Songfest (1977) 41’ 30 th Anniversary: 2007 A Cycle of American Poems for Six Singers (S, M, A, T, Bar, B) and Orchestra 3(III=picc).2.corA.2.EIcl.bcl.2.dbn–4.3.3.1–timp.perc(5)–harp–pft(=cel/elec pft)–elec.bass–strings FP: October 1977 Kennedy Center, Washington, DC Clamma Dale (S), Rosalind Elias, (M), Nancy Williams, (M), Neil Rosenshein, (T) John Reardon, (B), Donald Gramm, (Bbar) National Symphony Orchestra conducted by Leonard Bernstein Reduced Orchestration by Charlie Harmon, Sid Ramin, and George Steel (1996) 2(II=picc).2(II=corA).2(1=Ebcl,II=bcl).2–2.2.2.0–timp.perc(2) FP: Kaufmann Concert Hall, 92nd St Y, NYC Janus Ensemble conducted by Michael Barrett This masterly cycle for six singers and orchestra draws from the writings of Walt Whitman, Julia de Burgos, Langston Hughes, June Jordan, Gertrude Stein, e.e. Thanks to Bernstein’s craftsmanship and unerring dramatic instincts, these texts come vibrantly alive in his settings. The monumental orchestral song cycle Songfest unites American poetry with Bernstein’s uniquely American music, and Bernstein’s last song cycle Arias and Barcarolles includes Bernstein’s own literary words set to his music. ![]() ![]() 2: The Age of Anxiety is inspired by the W. Serenade for Violin, Percussion and Strings is a compositional treatment of Plato’s Symposium, Symphony No. And yet literature inspired many other compositions. Voltaire’s Candide and Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet are obvious examples. Some of his most memorable compositions are inspired by great literature and poetry. His love for words, word games and crossword puzzles naturally carried over to his love for literature. The Literary Bernstein “It is certainly not an intimate revelation … to say that Lenny loved words every bit as much as he loved notes,” wrote Leonard Bernstein’s brother Burton. ![]()
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