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The Floating Bride, The Crimson Village
for soprano and orchestra
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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. While the original is for voice and piano I always had in mind orchestral sounds for the accompaniment.
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
Text by Vincent O'Sullivan
Performance history
05 May 2009: 2009 NZSO-SOUNZ Readings 1
07 May 2010: NZSO: In a New Light
01 Feb 2012: NZSO - Chinese New Year