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Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir and instruments
Scoring:
GK4 2vl vla vc
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and large ensemble
Scoring:
sopr-m fl/fl-a ob/eh 2cl/2cl-b fg/cfg cymb cemb pf hp acc harm 2vl vla vc db
Keats II : for high voice and chamber orchestra, 1997 / on words by John Keats, Maarten Altena
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and large ensemble
Scoring:
high 2222 2220 2perc pf 4vl 2vla 2cb
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and large ensemble
Scoring:
ten-c 2perc 2vibr hp 7vl 4vla 2vc cb
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