Ricky Gordon, Mary Howe
Late Afternoon
6 Songs for Mezzo Soprano
Ricky Gordon, Mary Howe
Late Afternoon
6 Songs for Mezzo Soprano
- Instrumentation Medium Voice and Piano
- Composer Ricky Gordon Mary Howe
- Edition Piano Score
- Publisher Carl Fischer
- Order no. CF-VF15
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Description:
This is a heartfelt cycle of songs by Ricky Ian Gordon set the poetry of three important American poets, Jane Kenyon, Jean Valentine and Marie Howe. After a major personal loss, Gordon turned to the poetry of these women who speak of loss and death in a way that he found particularly consoling. The songs are beautifully written for a medium voice with Gordon's usual care. A dissonant and colorful keyboard part is a great enhancement to the generally reflective tone of the music. Gordon's moving setting of the late Jane Kenyon's heartbreaking Let Everyone Come is destined to be a recital classic. Late Afternoon was commissioned by Tisch Center of the Arts at the 92nd Street Y and was made possible with funds provided by the Mary Flagler Charitable Trust.