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Illinois State University Madrigal Singers
Premiere
60th Annual Illinois State University Madrigal Dinners
Prairie Room, Bone Student Center
Illinois State University, Normal, IL
ISU Madrigal Singers
Dr. Karyl Carlson, director
Dedication
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Program Notes
I was introduced to this poem through Ned Rorem’s beautiful setting of it in his Four Poems of Tennyson, which I had the pleasure of singing for the first time in 2003. Now, a dozen years later, I’ve returned to the text not as a singer, but as a composer. It’s always a challenge to work with a text that I strongly identify with another composer’s music – to create a new setting that is unburdened by the rhythms and harmonic language that so strongly color my perception of the text. My decision to set the poem for choir rather than voice and piano greatly helped. I’m not ashamed to say: anyone familiar with Ned’s song will hear hints of his setting in mine – my homage to the composer who has had such a huge impact on the ways that I write and think about music.
Performance History
Date | Performer(s) | Venue | City/State |
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December 10, 2015 | ISU Madrigal Singers 60th Anniversary Season ISU Madrigal Dinners | Prairie Room, Bone Student Center, Illinois State University | Normal, IL |
December 11, 2015 | ISU Madrigal Singers 60th Anniversary Season ISU Madrigal Dinners | Prairie Room, Bone Student Center, Illinois State University | Normal, IL |
December 12, 2015 | ISU Madrigal Singers 60th Anniversary Season ISU Madrigal Dinners | Prairie Room, Bone Student Center, Illinois State University | Normal, IL |
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