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Instrumentation: |
Mezzo-Soprano, Piano |
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Duration: |
5 Minutes |
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Premiere Performance: |
March, 1980, Corner Brook, NF |
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Sample Performance on CD |
The Premiere Performance |
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Sample Performance Quality: |
Good |
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Commission Details |
Commissioned by the Alliance for Canadian New Music Projects through a grant from the Ontario Arts Council. |
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Aria for Medium Voice and Piano is based on a series of notesw which appear in their clearest form in the wordless first entry of the voice. The series is then freely adapted and harmonized in the rest of the song. The text, "This is a hilly farm," is by Newfoundland poet John Steffler. |
