The Edge of Great Quiet: Songs from Alaska
Sally Reid
About this work:
This set of five songs for mezzo-soprano and clarinet is set to texts by Alaskan Poets
* On a Day of White Trees (Louise Gallop, Anchorage) 3:30"
* Two Stones (Leah Aronow-Brown, Fairbanks) 2:25"
* April (Barbara Christian, Anchorage) 1:30"
* Lonely (Joyce Freeman-Clark, Fairbanks) 1:45"
* Midnight Sun (Patricia Chamberlin-Clark, Fairbanks) 3:00"
duration: 12.25 minutes
The Edge of Great Quiet: Songs from Alaska, celebrates the cold, personal struggle and loneliness, the renewal/forgiveness of spring, and the glories of the midnight sun in musical settings of five texts by Alaskan poets. These poems appeared in poetryALASKAwomen: Top of the World, a collection published for musicALASKAwomen by Arts Venture in 1993
Version: mezzo-soprano and clarinet
Year composed: 1996
Duration: 00:12:45
Ensemble type: Voice, Solo or With Chamber or Jazz Ensemble:Solo Voice with One Non-keyboard Instrument
Instrumentation: 1 Clarinet, 1 Mezzo-Soprano
Instrumentation notes: mezzo-soprano and Bb clarinet