Harmonium: Eight Poems for Brass Quintet after Wallace Stevens

Opus Number
48
Date
1998, Boston
Instrumentation
two trumpets, French horn, trombone, tuba
Duration
15 minutes
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Bala Chamber Ensemble

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.

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