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Category Archives: Music
Personal or Impersonal?
A Dutch newspaper reviewed a song cycle of mine that took place in Amsterdam. The critic added that “…the music neither added nor subtracted from the poems.” When I first read this I was taken aback, thinking it was a … Continue reading
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Tagged A Woman is a Sometime Thing, aria, Christopher Marlowe, George Gershwin, John Donne, poetry, Porgy and Bess, song, The Baite
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The Ear Dictates
I have mic’d my clarinet to go to my Mac where the signal is processed by a Max/MSP program and then output to my Behringer amp. The final sound can resemble a clarinet or not at all. But how I … Continue reading
Posted in Music, Music & Nature
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The Fishing Rod
The most recent addition to my ongoing song cycle Fisherman Songs is The Fishing Rod. This song has three points of conscience influences. The following 6th-century Chinese poem by Shen Yuëh provides the text: Not only does my “cassia boat” … Continue reading
Posted in Music, The Fisherman Songs, Visual Arts
Tagged Chinese poetry, Le Rossignol, opera, Shen Yuëh, song, Stravinsky, Wu Zhen
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