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:
high 2023 1110 perc harm pf 2vl vla vc cb
HCE : for soprano and ensemble / Robert Groslot; text by James Joyce
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and large ensemble
Scoring:
zang fl(picc/fl-a) ob hp cemb 2vn vla vc db
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and large ensemble
Scoring:
sopr mand-orch
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