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
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and large ensemble
Instruments:
sopr-m fl(pi,fl-a) ob cl sax 2h 2trb 2perc hp pf(synth, glock) 2vl 2vla 2vc
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and large ensemble
Instruments:
sopr 1111 1110 pf vl vla vc cb
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and large ensemble
Instruments:
bas-bar 1110 sax-t crt 2perc pf 2vl vla vc cb
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