Dream Drapery
"Thoreau Songs"
For contralto and Baroque string quartet
- Year
- 2011
- Duration
- 21'
- Category
- Vocal Music
- Instrumentation
- contralto(2 glass crystals).2vn.va da gamba.vc
- Texts
- texts by Henry David Thoreau
- Commission
- support from the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and the Helen F. Whitaker Fund) and donations from the following individuals: Tara Lynn Fulton, Bryan Higgins, Kirby Leong, Marilyn Marquis, Elizabeth T.Mayer, Annie and Bruce Nalezny, Alexandra Saur, Celeste Winant, and Wendy Zukas Commissioned by the Galax Quartet with support from Commissioning Music/USA
- Premiere
- Premiere performance, The Galax Quartet with Contralto, Karen Clark, Octobaer, 21. 2012, Indiana Landmarks Center, Indainapolis, IN
- Purchase
- Schott Helicon
- Number of Pages
- 216
- Catalog Number
- ED 31320
- ISMN
- 979-0-800011-70-2
- Movements
- I. Each More Melodious Note I Hear
- II. I Was Born Upon thy Bank River · The Poet's Delay
- III. I Mark the Summer's Swift Decline
- IV. A Winter and Spring Scene
- V. Hymn for Bruce – Dies Irae
- VI. Low-anchored Cloud · Old Meeting-House Bell
Images
Dream Drapery Premiere Poster