Julian Grant» Songs and Choral http://www.juliangrant.net Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 12 Nov 2011 13:45:20 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 In a Fog – Remember (2010) http://www.juliangrant.net/songs-and-choral/in-a-fog-remember-2010/ http://www.juliangrant.net/songs-and-choral/in-a-fog-remember-2010/#comments Tue, 18 Jan 2011 19:00:26 +0000 jgrant http://www.juliangrant.net/?p=1015 8′

for SATB choir and piano

Poems by Anne Pierson-Wiese

Commissioned by the Grace and Spiritus Chorale of Brooklyn, with a grant from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs to mark the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.

fp Grace and Spiritus Chorale, c. James Busby. Friday 21 January 2011, Grace Church, Brooklyn Heights, NY,  Saturday 22 January 2011: Lafayatte Avenue Presbyterian Church, Fort Greene: Sunday 23 January 2011, Old First Reformed Church, Park Slope

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A royal song to an anonymous text
medium voice and piano
for NMC records 20th anniversary

MP3 available to download HERE

Sheet music available HERE

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Five songs to anonymous texts
for SSA chorus and string orchestra
fp. 7 July 2007, St Paul’s Girls’ School
SPGS Senior Choir and orchestra c. Mark Wilderspin

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Four songs for soprano and piano
Poems by Christopher Reid
For Tillie and for Sarah Leonard to sing to her
fp. 7 November 2004, BMIC Cutting Edge, The Warehouse, Theed St, London SE1
Sarah Leonard and Stephen Gutman

COLLECTED SONGS for Voice and Piano available from Andromache Music HERE

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Five songs to anonymous texts
for mezzo-soprano, three clarinets and double-bass

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Carol to anonymous words
for SSA chorus and string orchestra
fp.6 December 2002, St Peter’s Church, Barnes, London SW13
SPGS Madrigal group and ensemble  c. Heidi Pegler

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Six songs of abandonment
Poems by Pascoli, Wordsworth, Liu Ch’ang Ch’ing, The Book of Songs, Mandelstam,
in English and Italian
for mezzo-soprano, violin, viola and ‘cello

]]> http://www.juliangrant.net/songs-and-choral/out-in-the-cold-2002/feed/ 0 The Owl and the Pussycat (1998) http://www.juliangrant.net/songs-and-choral/the-owl-and-the-pussycat-1998/ http://www.juliangrant.net/songs-and-choral/the-owl-and-the-pussycat-1998/#comments Fri, 27 Mar 2009 15:23:34 +0000 admin http://closeknitstore.com/juliangrant/?p=149 7’

Scena for soprano and piano (versions for mezzo, and baritone)
Poem by Edward Lear
For Hattie Lighte
Ensemble version 1: flute, clarinet (+bcl), piano, violin, ‘cello
fp. 11 February 2000, Norwegian Church, Cardiff
Adey Grummet, PM Ensemble c. Michael Rafferty
Ensemble version 2: clarinet (+ecl), clarinet (+bcl), viola, ‘cello, double-bass
fp. 16 November 2001, The Warehouse, Theed St, London SE1
Mary Wiegold, Composers’ ensemble

COLLECTED SONGS for Voice and Piano available from Andromache Music HERE

(orchestral version also available)

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Four songs for mezzo-soprano and piano
Settings of fragments of the Carmina Gadelica, translated by Alexander Carmichael
In memory of my mother, Lori
fp. 28 May 1998, St Giles’ Church, Cripplegate, Barbican, London EC4
Susannah Self and Philip Headlam

read programme note HERE

COLLECTED SONGS for Voice and Piano available from Andromache Music HERE

(orchestral version also available)

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for SATB choir
Text: Confucius, adapted Peter Lighte
A birthday greeting for Giles Swayne
fp. 14 October 1996, Purcell Room, South Bank, London SE1
Laudibus c: Michael Brewer

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