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Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir and instruments
Scoring:
recit GK4 4sax 3perc 9acc 3cb
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and large ensemble
Scoring:
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Voices in the dark : for soprano, winds, bassguitar and piano, 1979 / Charles van der Leeuw
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and large ensemble
Scoring:
sopr 1010 3sax 2220 g-b pf
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and large ensemble
Scoring:
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composition
John Clare : for tenor and 15 instruments, 2000/2001 / text: John Clare, Jacques Bank
Other authors:
Clare, John
(Text writer/Librettist)
Bank, Jacques
(Composer)
Description:
Program note (English): The John Clare Triptych consists of three compositions dedicated to the life and work of the English poet John Clare. He was born in the little country village of Helpston (Northhamptonshire) in 1793 as son of a poor farmhand and died in a lunatic asylum in 1864. Clare's main problem was his homelessness. He didn't belong to the simple, non-intellectual world of his native region. Neither did he to the intellectual, arrogant world of the literary hotshots in London. Nor to the seeminly uncomplicated world of the gypsies. Even the asylum, where he stayed for the last twenty years of his life, was not his home. He wasn't mad. He just couldn't manage life. - Part 3: John Clare consists of six songs based on a number of diary notes, Clare's most famous poem 'I am !' and the heartrending, last letter he wrote in the asylum. - JACQUES BANK