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A DOME OF MANY-COLOURED GLASS

for tenor and piano

Duration:

20 minutes

Instrumentation:

tenor and piano

Year Composed:

2000

Poems By:

Amy Lowell

Poems Included:

1. The Painted Ceiling
2. The Traut
3. The Crescent Moon
4. Climbing
5. The Pleiades

Language:

English

Written For:

Joe Dan Harper and Anne Kissel Harper

Commissioned By:

The Florestan Recital Project with
grant from the St. Botolph Club

Premiere Performance:

3 May, 2003
Boston, MA, United States
Joe Dan Harper, tenor
Anne Kissel Harper, piano

SONG CYCLE FOR TENOR AND PIANO

THEMES:

CHILDHOOD

DISCOVERY

PERSPECTIVE

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Program Notes:

Amy Lowell’s verses for children brought back many flashbacks from my childhood – a period of exploration, discovery, and achieving little victories that we as adults often take for granted. My approach while composing the songs was to constantly shift between the perspectives of a child and an adult in interpreting the given situations.

A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass was commissioned by Joe Dan Harper and Anne Kissel Harper and was made possible by a grant from the St. Botolph Club Foundation.

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