Molly Manybloom
Victoria Bond
About this work:
Premiere: March 10, 1991; Albany NY
L'Ensemble: Ida Faiella, soprano; Barry Fincair, Ruth Waterman, violins; Paul Cortese, viola;, Beverly Lauridson, cello
Review: "Ms Bond's work, a setting of the final section of Ulysses, grants Molly something that Joyce denied her when he married her off to Bloom: she lets Molly be a prima donna, and gives her a powerful, stylistically varied and technically demanding soprano line. Like Joyce's text, it is by turns wistful, angry, caustic, rhapsodic and nostalgic. And around it, Ms Bond has woven an expressive, dynamic quartet score in which the instruments are heard alone, in duets with Molly, and in a promiscuous combination of duets, trios and full ensembles. The language is pervasively chromatic, yet it takes in influences of all sorts, including blues, a waltz and fragments of popular songs mentioned by Joyce."
--The NY Times
"Impressive, ambitious and effective."
--Harold Prince
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Year composed: 1990
Duration: 00:00:00
Ensemble type: Voice, Solo or With Chamber or Jazz Ensemble:Voice with Chamber/Jazz Ensemble, 2-5 Players
Instrumentation: 2 Violin, 1 Viola, 1 Cello, 1 Soprano
Instrumentation notes: S, 2 vln, vla, vc