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The Floating Bride, the Crimson Village
for soprano and piano
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About
The song cycle The Floating Bride, the Crimson Village was written as part of my residency at the New Zealand School of Music in 2008. A casual conversation with writer Vincent O’Sullivan led to him writing fifteen poems inspired by the paintings of Marc Chagall. I set eleven of these for performance at the Adam Chamber Music Festival in Nelson 2009.
Ross Harris
Commissioned note
Written while composer in residence at the New Zealand School of Music 2007-8
Contents note
1. A rooster is walking the bluest night
2. Tu es ma belle
3. The dancer
4. The ladder to the moon
5. The rabbi
6. Give me a green horse
7. As the night
8. You can talk
9. I know the road
10. Like a scarlet lake
11. Mon Dieu
Text note
Poems by Vincent O'Sullivan