Saturday, February 25, 2012 at 7:57AM 2010 | boychoir/mezzo-soprano/tenor/clarinet/violin/cello and piano
Libretto by David Mason
From the Vedem oratorio
Monday, July 15, 2013 at 2:57PM
Friday, February 24, 2012 at 10:33PM 2008, rev. 2016, final aria revisions 2018 | soprano/piano
There also is an arrangement for soprano and guitar, and the PDF will be sold on my site at MusicaNeo.com
Libretto by David Mason
From The Scarlet Letter
At the end of Act One, Scene Two of The Scarlet Letter, Hester is alone in her jail cell with her sleeping baby, having just been confronted by her estranged husband, whom she had until that day assumed was dead. This is the moment when her love for her daughter, Pearl, overwhelms her, and she vows to do everything in her power, despite the morality of her community and her husband’s desire for revenge, to protect and nurture her child.
— David Mason
This aria is for sale with the following options:
Hard copy available through Glendower Jones and classicalvocalrep.com. Click here to purchase.
PDF copy available through MusicaNeo. Click here to purchase.
If you purchased this aria prior to 5.4.18, please amend Hester's line as follows:
m. 15 — add mp at end of diminuendo
m. 36 — add diminuendo to Hester’s line
m. 46 — add forte to beat 2
m. 57 — erase dim
m. 58 — erase mf
m. 59 — erase f
And here are some additional corrections, made to the score on 8.21.19
m. 10-11 Piano: the crescendo should lead into the downbeat in m. 11
m. 14 Piano: the downbeat should be relatively loud, and diminuendo to the mp. Then the crescendo should lead to the downbeat of m. 15.
m. 18 Piano: the downbeat should lead to the downbeat of m. 19.
m. 24: add poco rit to this measure
m. 37 Voice and Piano: dynamic should be mf
m. 51-52 piano: erase the descrescendo and put it into m. 53 instead
m. 60 piano - the last note should be mp and in m. 61 the mf should be erased.
m. 66 voice - extend the descrescendo back to beat 2 of m. 65
m. 67: add poco rit to this measure
Additional corrections to the aria posted on March 23, 2023
in m. 58 of Hester's part, there should be no mf (but the hairpin stays)
in m. 62, please erase the vocal dynamic
Additional changes: Oct. 5, 2023
The first 3 measures of the piano should be pedaled. My preference is to use one pedal for each measure.
If you have purchased this score previously from Glendower Jones or from MusicaNeo and would like a free updated PDF, please contact me at lori@artsongs.com
Friday, February 24, 2012 at 10:37PM 2008, rev. 2016, final aria revisions 2018) | mezzo-soprano/piano
From The Scarlet Letter
Libretto by David Mason
Act One, Scene Four of The Scarlet Letter finds Arthur Dimmesdale sharing rooms with Roger Chillingworth, who has come to suspect Dimmesdale of adultery. Chillingworth leaves to attend to the dying governor, and when Dimmesdale awakes from a drug- induced sleep he wanders alone out into the streets, tortured by his own guilt. There he meets Mistress Hibbons, who sees the hypocrisy in the young minister, sees that he has hidden behind his pious image and even distanced himself from his own identity. In this song she taunts the minister—a sort of grotesque mirror of his guilt. — David Mason
This aria is for sale with the following options:
Hard copy available through Glendower Jones and classicalvocalrep.com. Click here to purchase the voice/piano version.
PDF copy available through MusicaNeo. Click here to purchase.
If you are interested in performing the voice/orchestral version, please contact me directly.
Saturday, February 25, 2012 at 7:19AM 2010 | boychoir/mezzo-soprano/tenor/clarinet/violin/cello and piano
From the Vedem oratorio
Libretto by David Mason
Saturday, February 25, 2012 at 7:29AM 2010 | boychoir/clarinet/violin/cello and piano. Also available for boychoir (or children’s choir) and piano
From the Vedem oratorio and the Vedem choral excerpt cycle
Libretto by David Mason
Saturday, February 25, 2012 at 7:44AM 2010 | boychoir/clarinet/violin/cello/piano. Also available for boychoir (or children’s choir) and piano
From the Vedem oratorio and the Vedem choral excerpt cycle
Libretto by David Mason
Saturday, February 25, 2012 at 7:48AM 2010 | boychoir/tenor/clarinet/violin/cello and piano
From the Vedem oratorio
Libretto by David Mason
Sunday, March 6, 2011 at 11:19AM David Mason and I have begun work on our second opera together, based on his verse-novel Ludlow. In 2009, David received the $40,000 Thatcher Hoffman Smith Award for Creativity in Motion, awarded by The University of Oklahoma. The prize was given to David specifically to create the libretto for our 2nd opera together.
We are thrilled that The University of Colorado’s New Opera Works program, run by Leigh Holman, will workshop Act I of Ludlow in June 2012 in Boulder, CO. Beth Greenberg will direct. For more information, please click here.
Friday, February 24, 2012 at 10:41PM 2008, rev. 2016, final aria revisions 2018 | baritone/piano
From The Scarlet Letter
Libretto by David Mason
In Act One, scene two of The Scarlet Letter, Hester is found in her jail cell, having just been publicly accused of adultery. Her estranged husband, now calling himself Roger Chillingworth, enters the jail as a doctor to offer assistance to her ailing baby. As the two begin to recognize each other, Chillingworth sings of their past, betraying a vulnerability he will later quell when, in a spirit of frustrated rage, he will seek revenge for Hester’s adultery. — David Mason
This aria is for sale with the following options:
Hard copy available through Glendower Jones and classicalvocalrep.com. Click here to purchase.
PDF copy available through MusicaNeo. Click here to purchase.
