composer
Ronald Ford was born September 29, 1959 in Kansas City, U.S.A. He moved to Amsterdam, the Netherlands, in 1983.
Education: Ford studied composition, piano and computer engineering at the Duke University ...
related works
Genre:
Unknown
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
alt/sopr-m 2223 4322 timp perc 2hp str
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra; Voice and piano
Scoring:
sopr-m pf
Twee sonnetten : voor mezzo-sopraan en orkest, op. 10 / Marius Flothuis
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
medium 0222 2100 timp perc str
composition
Song and dance : for soprano and orchestra, 1990 / text: Ottavio Rinuccini, Ronald Ford
Other authors:
Ford, Ron
(librettist)
Rinuccini, Ottavio
(librettist)
Description:
Program note (English): Songs and Dance uses the text 'Piangono al Pianger mio' by the renaissance librettist/poet Ottavio Rinuccini in an English translation. The textual images of weeping beasts and sighing stones formed the initial inspiration for the orchestral part. Slowly, tentatively, the orchestra moves forward, feeling its way into new territory. This very gradual development is contrasted by the active rhythmic sense, resulting in a music which is both slow and fast at the same time. At a certain point the soprano begins telling us the text that we have already been hearing in the orchestra, singing as a sort of cantus firmus from within the orchestra. - RON FORD