Upon Silence
Mezzo Soprano & String Ensemble
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SKU: AP.12-0571515789
Mezzo Soprano & String Ensemble. Composed by George Benjamin. Larger Works; Masterworks; Performance Music Ensemble; Vocal Extended Work. Faber Edition. 20th Century; Masterwork; Secular. Score. Faber Music #12-0571515789. Published by Faber Music (AP.12-0571515789).ISBN 9780571515783. English.
Upon Silence sets Long-legged Fly, a late poem of Yeats which portrays three momentous figures in history absorbed in silent contemplation: Julius Caesar planning a crucial military campaign, Helen of Troy as an adolescent in Sparta and Michelangelo painting the Sistine Chapel. The verses are set in a syllabic manner, while each successive chorus is set to increasingly lengthy melismas as, like the long-legged fly above water, the voice hovers above the strings.
For Mezzo Soprano with String Ensemble.