related works
Put me on my bike Nº 1 : for solo-baritone, recorder (alto), mixed choir / Jacques Bank
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir and instruments
Scoring:
bar 4sopr 4alt 4ten 4bas rec-a
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and large ensemble
Scoring:
sopr fl/picc/fl-a cl/cl-b h perc hp pf 2vln vla vc db
La porte : for baritone and ensemble, 1999 / text: Guillaume Apollinaire, Micha Hamel
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and large ensemble
Scoring:
bar 1121 1000 2perc 2vl vla vc cb
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and large ensemble
Scoring:
voice fl ob eh hp 2vl vla vlc
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