Desde las cenizas
Desde las cenizas (From the ashes) is a song cycle for mezzo-soprano and piano based on the art and poetry of Steve Clark. I composed this work after seeing Steve's exhibit The Girl is Blue and Refuses to Sing, a collection of paintings that embeds fragments of his verse in each canvas. Equally as stunning as the paintings, Desde las cenizas was the perfect poetry to set for a song cycle.
Filled with dark, morose tones, I was drawn to Steve Clark's poetry for its inherent musicality. Desde las cenizas is described as "an apocalyptic love poem in the form of an interior monologue which unleashes different voices...Part lyric, part confessional, part manic rant, it depicts a confused and chaotic world at the point of extinction...When the world has ended, when there is nothing but
ashes, what music will we hear?"
You can listen to three of the songs in the video below!
Desde las cenizas (From the ashes) is a song cycle for mezzo-soprano and piano based on the art and poetry of Steve Clark. I composed this work after seeing Steve's exhibit The Girl is Blue and Refuses to Sing, a collection of paintings that embeds fragments of his verse in each canvas. Equally as stunning as the paintings, Desde las cenizas was the perfect poetry to set for a song cycle.
Filled with dark, morose tones, I was drawn to Steve Clark's poetry for its inherent musicality. Desde las cenizas is described as "an apocalyptic love poem in the form of an interior monologue which unleashes different voices...Part lyric, part confessional, part manic rant, it depicts a confused and chaotic world at the point of extinction...When the world has ended, when there is nothing but
ashes, what music will we hear?"
You can listen to three of the songs in the video below!
Desde las cenizas (From the ashes) is a song cycle for mezzo-soprano and piano based on the art and poetry of Steve Clark. I composed this work after seeing Steve's exhibit The Girl is Blue and Refuses to Sing, a collection of paintings that embeds fragments of his verse in each canvas. Equally as stunning as the paintings, Desde las cenizas was the perfect poetry to set for a song cycle.
Filled with dark, morose tones, I was drawn to Steve Clark's poetry for its inherent musicality. Desde las cenizas is described as "an apocalyptic love poem in the form of an interior monologue which unleashes different voices...Part lyric, part confessional, part manic rant, it depicts a confused and chaotic world at the point of extinction...When the world has ended, when there is nothing but
ashes, what music will we hear?"
You can listen to three of the songs in the video below!
Items included: Full Score and Instrumental Parts
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