for mezzo-soprano and piano
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First performance:
9 June 1993, Greenwich House, New York, NY; Friends &
Enemies of New Music; Christine Schadeberg - mezzo-soprano, Christopher
Oldfather - piano.
6:30
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1993
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She Speaks for mezzo-soprano and piano |
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In setting Hilda Raz's wonderful poem She Speaks, I have tried to
find musical analogues for the contrasting views of the Garden and the
world voiced in the poem. Where Adam is blunt and iron-clad, the narrator
(and perhaps the poet) see things in a more variegated light. The allusion
at the end of the last stanza, which Adam would surely cast as another
monosyllable, is taken up instead by the ensemble in a brief coda.
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