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Raise no funeral song …
for soprano or mezzo-soprano and piano
Instrumentation:
soprano or mezzo-soprano and piano
Duration:
6' 30"
Year of composition:
2022
Commissioned by:
Jessica Summers
Premiere:
Jessica Summers (soprano) and Jelena Makarova (piano), Living Songs: Songs of Love and Exile Concert, York Late Music, St. Saviourgate Unitarian Chapel, York, 5 February 2022.
Published by:
‘Raise no funeral song’ sets a fragment from the first scene of “Sophocles’ Oedipus at Colonus: A Version for the Modern Stage” by W.B. Yeats.
It is intended in the manner of a narration rather than as a piece for the stage. As in storytelling, a singer delivers the utterances of all the characters. The piano provides evocative shards of music that punctuate the narrative.
S.M.
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