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Catalogue of the Music of Larry BellOpus number: 48Title: Harmonium: Eight Poems for Brass Quintet after Wallace Stevens Instrumentation: two trumpets, French horn, trombone, tuba Date written: 1998, Boston Performances: Bala Chamber Ensemble, ???? Length: ca. fifteen minutes Program notes: “Harmonium” is a suite arranged from a set of madrigals, “A Cry Against the Twilight,” op. 42, composed in 1996. Harmonium is the title of Stevens’s first book of poems and all of the poetry that I set comes from that book. The poems in Harmonium are concerned with the metaphysical relationships between life and death and the natural elements. All music is published by Casa Rustica Publications, 73 Hemenway Street, #501, Boston, Massachusetts 02115 |
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