BELLS AND GRASS

BELLS AND GRASS
5 Songs for Soprano and Oboe
on Poems by Walter de la Mare

Publisher
E. C. Schirmer Music Company

Catalog Number
8584

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Description
BELLS AND GRASS portrays five intimate scenes, in which small things come into focus and the world recedes: a nightingale’s song echoing from a nearby wall, the bright sun and the waves of the ocean, the moon lighting up a stream with its silvery halo, the flames burning over coals in a fireplace as twilight descends, and the varied and musical sounds of rainfall. The pairing of voice with oboe provides this little cycle with a uniquely colorful charm and immediacy.

Text
1 – Echo
2 – Gone
3 – Why?
4 – Coals
5 – Rain

Vocal Range
B 3  :  F-sharp 5

Duration
11′ 00″

Vocal Tessitura
G 4  :  D 5

Year of Composition
1989

First Performance
September 12, 2004
Ethel Walker School
Simsbury, Connecticut

First Performers
Lisa Nappi, soprano
Marilyn Krentzman, oboe