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
Chain : for wind orchestra, 1995, revision 1997 / Ron Ford
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Wind ensemble (9 or more players)
Scoring:
3333 4441
Hymne : voor bas-solo met orkestbegeleiding, 1941-1943 / [tekst] (P.C. Boutens), Willem Pijper
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
bas 2333 4331 timp perc hp str
Three songs : for (mezzo) soprano and orchestra, 1991 / poems by Paul Celan, Jan Vriend
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
sopr/sopr-m 2222 4231 2perc pf(perc) str(8.8.6.5.2.)
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
sopr-m 3231 2100 4perc hp 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