Ned Rorem / Eugene Istomin, piano
War Scenes / 5 Songs
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Contemporary music for soprano, tenor and piano: War Scenes & 5 Songs to Poems (Walt Whitman)
tracks
- 1 Ned Rorem: War Scenes - Texts by Walt Whitman - A Night battle
- 2 A Specimen Case
- 3 An Incident
- 4 Inauguration Ball
- 5 The Real War Will Never Get in the Books
- 6 5 Songs to Poems - Texts by Walt Whitman - Early in the Morning
- 7 You Whom I Often and Silently Come
- 8 To You
- 9 Look Down, Fair Moon
- 10 Gliding O'er All
- 11 Four Dialogues for 2 Voices and 2 Pianos - Frank Ohara - The Sub
- 12 The Airport
- 13 The Apartment
- 14 In New York and Spain
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Ned Rorem (vol.2) WAR SCENES/FIVE SONGS/FOUR DIALOGUES
Ned Rorem War Scenes
Five Songs to Poems of Walt Whitman
Four Dialogues
Donald Gramm, bass-baritone War Scenes
Eugene Istomin, piano Five Songs to Poems of Walt Whitman
Anita Darian, soprano Four Dialogues (For Two Voices and Two Pianos)
John Stewart, tenor
Richard Cumming, piano
Ned Rorem, piano
The texts for the cycle, WAR SCENES, were very freely excised from Walt Whitman's diary of the Civil War titled "Specimen Days." The music was designed for Gerard Souzay who first performed it, with pianist Dalton Baldwin, in Constitution Hall, Washington, D.C., October 19, 1969. The published score contains the following dedication: "To those who died in Vietnam, both sides, during the composition: 20-30 June 1969."
The "Five Songs to Poems by Walt Whitman" were all composed in the summer of 1957 in Hyeres, France. they were commissioned by Walder Luke Burnap who premiered them, self-accompanied at the viginals, in New York the following spring.
The late Frank O'Hara conceived the words to "The Quarrel Sonata" (as he first called the FOUR DIALOGUES) expressly to be set by me for the unique combination of two voices and two pianos. This was accomplished early in 1954, mostly in London and Paris. The premiere took place on March 23rd of the following year at a private concert in the Contessa Pecci Blunt's Roman palazzo. This lavishly somnolent old-world decor seemed gorgeously anachronistic to our glib non-poetry and vulgar music which, in their comic-strip tightness, pre-dated Pop Art by a decade.
Notes by Ned Rorem