Moon Songs
A Song Cycle In Four Acts for Soprano, Flute (Doubling Piccolo), Violoncello, and Piano
Composer
Lyricist
- Shlomo Gvirol
- Yehuda Halevi
- Haim Gouri
- Almog Behar
- Samuel Menashe
- Albert Giroux
- Shmu'el Hanagid
Instrumentation
- Soprano
- Flute
- Piccolo
- Cello
- Piano
$75.00
Allow 4-5 days
SKU
111-40240S
Ran was asked for a new work for Mimi Stillman's Dolce Suono Ensemble and their Mahler/Schoenberg 2012 concert series. Creating a piece that would be at once an homage and a companion piece to Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire was an intriguing challenge. Ran ultimately chose poems and excerpts that reference the moon in a riveting performance setting for flute (doubling piccolo), piano, cello, and soprano/narrator/actress. With English and Hebrew texts, Moon Songs consists of four "acts" with two entr-actes. Extensive program notes and performance notes are included. Ran advises, “Demanding as her sung part is, the singer…needs to be as much an actress as a singer.”
SKU: 111-40240S
Duration: 26:00
Commission Notice: Commissioned by Dolce Suono Ensemble with funding from the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage through the Philadelphia Music Project.
Publisher: Theodore Presser Company
Delivery Method: Print
Page count: 54
UPC: 6-80160-67148-9
Duration: 26:00
Commission Notice: Commissioned by Dolce Suono Ensemble with funding from the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage through the Philadelphia Music Project.
Publisher: Theodore Presser Company
Delivery Method: Print
Page count: 54
UPC: 6-80160-67148-9
Act I: Creation
Act II: Li Bai Ve’Hayare‘akh Hareik(Li Bai and the Vacant Moon)
Entr’acte I
Act III: Star-crossed
Entr’acte II: Prayer to Pierrot
Act IV: Medley
Act I: Transposed Version of mm. 57-79