by barbarah_admin | Mar 20, 2023
Fantasy and Fugue on “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot” The dramatic fantasy section also includes a lyrical rendition of the melody. Solo woodwinds introduce the various sections, and the lively fugue subject is based on this beloved tune. All the instruments participate...
by barbarah_admin | Mar 20, 2023
My Garden is three evocative settings for soprano and orchestra on poems by Christina Rossetti. There is a budding morrow in midnight (c. 1887) Wintry boughs against a wintry sky; Yet the sky is partly blue And the clouds are partly bright: – Who can tell but...
by barbarah_admin | Oct 9, 2021
Visions of Hildegard was inspired by Hildegard of Bingen of the Order of Saint Benedict. She lived from 1098-1179, and she was known as Saint Hildegard, Sibyl of the Rhine, as well as an abbess, writer, composer, philosopher, mystic, and visionary. Many consider her...
by barbarah_admin | Oct 9, 2021
From Harbach’s opera O Pioneers! – the first movement of Mischances of Life for Orchestra, I. In the Cold, in the Deep, in the Dark is the dark place where one retreats after a horrendous tragedy occurs. Alexandra begins to contemplate her feelings after the death of...
by barbarah_admin | Oct 9, 2021
Jane Johnston Schoolcraft was the first known Native American poet and the first known Native American woman writer. Her husband published her poems and stories. Her writings and poems in English paralleled those of Anglo-American and British writers such as William...
