NINE STEINS

NINE STEINS
9 Songs for Soprano and Piano
on poems by Gertrude Stein

Publisher
E. C. Schirmer Music Company

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Description
Gertrude Stein occupied a unique position in American literary history, and this song cycle aims to show some of her unique, idiosyncratic poetry to its fullest. Juliana Hall’s fertile imagination takes Stein’s poems to a place of color, playfulness, and humor reflecting their amazing qualities of personality and, indeed, their innate musicality!

Text
1 – An Occasion
2 – Anything Suitable
3 – The Best Way
4 – There Is No Use
5 – Giving It Away
6 – And That
7 – Suppose There Is
8 – Clean
9 – Return Gratitude

Vocal Range
E-flat 4  :  A 5

Duration
8′ 00″

Vocal Tessitura
A 4  :  E 5

Year of Composition
2023

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