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SENTIMENT : MEZZO-SOPRANO VERSION |
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Juliana Hall decided to set poet Caitlin Vincent’s text — SENTIMENT — for a solo unaccompanied soprano singer, creating a monodrama (her first), because she felt the raw emotions expressed in Vincent’s text required a more direct communication from singer to audience than a piece with piano or another instrument might allow. In describing her text, Vincent writes,
“The general premise is emotions but also about the version of ourselves we try to present to the world. Each song leads into the next: giddy happiness followed by the inevitable plunge into depression, then anger and embarrassment for revealing too much to the audience, remorse for lashing out, and finally a plea for the world to see only the singer’s ‘best’ side.”
After its initial release as a work for unaccompanied soprano, many mezzo-sopranos asked Hall whether she had a piece for solo mezzo, so Hall decided to create a new version of “Sentiment” for unaccompanied mezzo-soprano. While the two versions are largely the same, there are quite a few rewritten passages for the mezzo to account for range differences and adjustments necessitated by these; therefore, the version of “Sentiment” for solo mezzo-soprano is not simply a transposition of the original soprano version, but is truly a new work in its own right.
Text
1 – Prologue
2 – Joy
3 – Sorrow
4 – Anger
5 – Remorse
6 – Epilogue
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