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.
Texts
1 – Echo
2 – Gone
3 – Why?
4 – Coals
5 – Rain
Year of Composition
1989
Duration
11 minutes
Dedication
Janet Popesco Archibald
First Performance
September 12, 2004
Ethel Walker School
Simsbury, Connecticut
Lisa Nappi, soprano
Marilyn Krentzman, oboe
Listen
Julia Broxholm, soprano
Margaret Marco, oboe
Echo
Gone
Why?
Coals
Rain
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Julia Broxholm, soprano
Margaret Marco, oboe
Bells and Grass