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"The evening light is wide and yellow,"
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"The evening light is wide and yellow,..." poem by Anna Ahkmatova Song for Soprano and 2 harps, (in Russian)
jazz classical instrumental vocal opera orchestra chamber ballet
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Composer for large-scale performance work, ballet and opera. Have written music for classical theatrical productions of Shakespeare, ("The Tempest," "The Twelft
Loren Lieberman is a native of Denver, Colorado, now living on the West Coast in California, where he is best known for his work as an actor in Classical and Shakespearean Theatre. He has a degree from Sonoma State University in Theatre Arts, and has been an Honor's Music Composition Student at the College of Marin, Santa Rosa Junior College, and at Sonoma State University. He has won an award for composition from the Redwood Empire Music Association. He has recently completed an opera in Russian, based on the novel by Alexander Solzhenitsyn, "Cancer Ward", (and of the same name), and is currently working on his fourth opera, based on the Classical Tragedy by Sophocles, "Oedipus the King," with a libretto in Ancient Greek. His interest in languages has shaped much of his artistic temperment, and he is self taught in Russian and Sanskrit, and has hopes to begin his next opera, Shakespeare's, "Romeo and Juliet," in Hindi.
Song Info
Genre
Classical Opera
Charts
Peak #74
Peak in subgenre #4
Author
Anna Ahkmatova
Rights
adhikapokoya 2010
Uploaded
March 01, 2010
Track Files
MP3
MP3 1.9 MB 128 kbps 2:03
Story behind the song
As a composer, I have been thinking of increasing the size of my orchestra's composition to include contra bassoon, and two harps. Eventually to write for three trumpets, instead of two. This is my first composition using two harps, and sets the poem by Anna Ahkmatova to music. Maria Gerasimova sent me the poem late last year. The poem is not long. The composition has a fairly primitive structure, with the harps playing in duet, and the duet repeated with the Soprano voice added. Examining a different approach to writing, the composition has not been re-worked or polished, and remains very much an "improvisation," compositionaly speaking.
Lyrics
The evening light is wide and yellow, The coolness of April is gentle. You were late for many years, But just the same, I am happy for you. Here sit closer to me and Look with cheerful eyes at This dark blue writing-book- My verses written as a child. Forgive, that I lived grieving And pleased the sun but little. Forgive, forgive, that for you I too many accepted.
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