7 Songs for Contralto and Piano
on poems by James Joyce
Publisher
E. C. Schirmer Music Company
Catalog Number
8769
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Texts
1 – Strings in the Earth and Air
2 – Winds of May
3 – Of That So Sweet Imprisonment
4 – In the Dark Pine-Wood
5 – Bid Adieu
6 – At That Hour When All Things Have Repose
7 – O Cool is the Valley
Year of Composition
2017
Duration
20 minutes
Dedication
Stephanie Blythe
First Performance
January 19, 2019
Sparks & Wiry Cries
1st songSLAM Festival
DiMenna Center for Classical Music
New York, New York
Stephanie Blythe, mezzo soprano
Alan Louis Smith, piano
Listen
no recording of the complete cycle is available at this time; however, there is a recording of At That Hour When All Things Have Repose which was first performed at the Fall Island Vocal Arts Seminar on May 23, 2018
Stephanie Blythe, mezzo soprano
Alan Louis Smith, piano
At That Hour When All Things Have Repose
from ‘Of That So Sweet Imprisonment’
Live Performance
Stephanie Blythe, mezzo soprano
Alan Louis Smith, piano
At That Hour When All Things Have Repose
from ‘Of That So Sweet Imprisonment’