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Sonnet 102 / The Twenty-Four Hour Song (Ana Bozicevic)
The Twenty-Four Hour Song
Even your maker would not think you proud
if she could repossess your eyes and see
the green courtyards
in morning lengthening
to fit your seeing soul's geometry—
and how you wished they would stay as they were,
like a girl's face before you spoke to her.
arrangement for soprano, clarinet, string quartet
Sonnet 115 / Many Have Asked How We Stay Together (Roxanne Hoffman)
Alternate version of "Summer" for soprano, piano, and optional horn.
This is an arrangement of "Behind Corneal Gates" for soprano, clarinet, and string quartet.
Sonnet 18 / In a Hot Country (Anne Cammon Fiero)
The Ballad of Milt Famey tells the story of the 1920 World Series between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Cleveland Indians. The pitcher for the Dodgers was a young Milt Famey, who had compiled the greatest win-loss record in the history of the National League. His ERA was incredibly low, a stunning 0.38. In the season leading to the World Series Famey had won 38 flawlessly pitched games with zero losses. This amazing feat has never since been matched.
So why don’t we all know who he is? We know Babe Ruth and Jackie Robinson and Hank Aaron, but not Milt Famey. For all of his skill and prowess he never won the World Series. Famey struggled with alcohol, and attempted to close the seventh game of the 1920 series while severely drunk. This great pitcher threw four balls, walking Elmer Smith and losing the game and the series. He never recovered from that loss, and the rest of his career was unremarkable.
In the End, The Soprano Always Wins is an opera for soprano with video playback and a non-singing dramatic role. The story is a game show for musicians who have to repeat a pattern of notes that is played for them. The idea originated in a conversation with Monica Harte (for whom this opera was composed) when she said that she always wanted to have a piece written based on the old electronic Simon game. She thought that the patterns could get faster and faster until craziness ensued.
Composed for Jenny Greene’s Fifteen Minutes of Fame
This text is from Lady Macbeth’s soliloquy in Act I, scene 5 of Macbeth, in which she is preparing to help here husband murder Duncan, the king.
ro•sa•ry – a series of prayers counted on a string of beads, usually consisting of five or fifteen decades of Aves
A•ve – Ave Maria
This piece was submitted to, but not selected for, Beth Griffith’s Fifteen Minutes of Fame.
