related works
Dans van de pianojuf : voor viool, klarinet en piano, 1991 / Jacques Bank
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Wind and string and keyboard instrument(s)
Scoring:
cl vl pf
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and large ensemble
Scoring:
sopr-m fl(pi,fl-a) ob cl sax 2h 2trb 2perc hp pf(synth, glock) 2vl 2vla 2vc
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:
alt 3230 4221 3perc pf
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and large ensemble
Scoring:
voice fl ob eh hp 2vl vla vlc
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