composer
Tijdens het Rostrum of Composers krijgt zijn compositie 'Minutes of Lives' (1982) voor sopraan en klarinetkwartet, op teksten van de 17e eeuwse, Engelse schrijver John Aubrey, een aanbeveling.
related works
Tien vocale minuten : voor mezzosopraan en bas / [red. Michael Nieuwenhuizen]
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice solo; Vocal Ensemble (2-12)
Instruments:
sopr-m bas ; sopr-m ; bar ; bas
π = 3,14 : for alto solo and chamber orchestra / Julia Tsenova
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and large ensemble
Instruments:
ob fg h timp perc pf 2vln vla vc db
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and large ensemble; Electronics and singing voice(s) with or without instrument(s)
Instruments:
recit 1111 1210 perc pf(cel) 2vl vla vc cb tape
Stap verder : for female voice, tapdancer and big band / Vanessa Lann; text by Emma Lazarus
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and large ensemble
Instruments:
zang cl-b fg 2sax-a 2sax-t 5tpt 5trb tb 2perc pf tapdancer g-e g-b
composition
John Clare : for tenor and 15 instruments, 2000/2001 / text: John Clare, Jacques Bank
Other authors:
Clare, John
(librettist)
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