composer
Ross James Carey is a composer and pianist. Born in Lower Hutt, New Zealand in 1969, he has been teaching at universities in Malaysia since 2010. As both a composer ...
related works
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and piano
Scoring:
voc pf
Two Poetic Poems by Ya Hsien : for baritone and piano / Man-Ching Yu Donald
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and piano
Scoring:
bar pf
Vier liederen : voor hoge stem en piano, opus 86 / naar gedichten van H. Marsman, Herman Mulder
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and piano
Scoring:
high pf
Bereft : for medium voice and piano / Dennis Hyams; poem by Thomas Hardy
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and piano
Scoring:
zang pf
composition
Nine Poems from "Meeting the Comet" : for countertenor or mezzo-soprano and piano / Ross James Carey; poems by Fleur Adcock
Other authors:
Adcock, Fleur
(librettist)
Description:
Nine Poems from ‘Meeting the Comet’ is a setting of nine poems by New Zealand born, U.K. resident poet Fleur Adcock, from her set of twenty-four poems, 'Meeting the Comet'. These describe a young girl with a disability and her encounter with Halley's Comet, as seen in the skies from New Zealand in the 1980s. The setting is of poems number 3, 6, 9 ‘So far’, 11 ‘Stars’, 14 ‘Comet’, 15 ‘Halley party’, 18, 22 and 24.