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Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Speaking voice and instrument(s)
Scoring:
recit fl cl vl vla vc pf
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Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and large ensemble
Scoring:
bar pf 9vl 3vla 2vc cb
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and large ensemble
Scoring:
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For the time being : for alto voice and ensemble of winds and percussion, 1990 / Jan Guichelaar
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