Saturday, February 25, 2012 at 8:01AM To purchase the mp3 of Angela Niederloh, Laura De Luca and Mina Miller performing this song, please click here.
Sunday, February 12, 2012 at 9:09AM 2010
Arrangements with violin created in 2018.
Song cycle drawn from the Vedem oratorio. Poems are by Petr Ginz, Hanus Hachenburg, Zdenek Ornest, and Josef Taussig. It is about 15 1/2 minutes in length and contains six songs:
Memories of Prague; Five; Just A Little Warmth; Thoughts; Love In The Floodgates; Farewell To Summer.
To purchase pdfs of Vedem Songs from Musicaneo, please click here. The various versions are listed to the right.
ERRATA for VEDEM ORATORIO and VEDEM SONGS
JUST A LITTLE WARMTH, m. 39-40, violin — the octave may be incorrect in some versions. Should be:
In THOUGHTS, m. 53, the F# should be up an octave, and m. 15 should be completely slurred.
For the song THOUGHTS
Change original tempo to quarter=92; also change marking to 92 at m. 32
m. 82 add forte to Mezzo and Clarinet and Piano in full score
m. 88 remove metronome marking
For the song FAREWELL TO SUMMER
m. 34-36, piano, Right Hand: The A in the chord should be an A#
m. 69-70, piano, Left Hand: the Abs should be tied across the bar line
If you have previously purchased this music and would like a revised copy, please email me at lori@artsongs.com.
Sunday, March 6, 2011 at 11:03AM 2010 | boychoir, mezzo-soprano and tenor soloists, clarinet, violin, cello and piano
This oratorio was commissioned by Music of Remembrance and was premiered by MOR at Benaroya Hall in Seattle, WA on May 10, 2010. It is scored for boychoir, mezzo-soprano and tenor soloists, clarinet, violin, cello and piano. The songs from the oratorio can be sung independently as a separate song cycle, and these are scored for the soloists with clarinet and piano accompaniment.
The libretto intertwines the original poetry secretly published by the boys of Terezin with David Mason’s brilliant depiction of their lives. The poems are by Petr Ginz, Hanus Hachenburg, Zdenek Ornest, and Josef Taussig.
The oratorio is about one hour long and contains the following songs:
The Transports; Memories of Prague; Home Number One; Vedem; Five; Just A Little Warmth; In Terezin The Mind Was Free; Thoughts: Like Leaves About To Fall; Love In The Floodgates; We Were Alive, Approximately; A Model Ghetto; They Are Gone; Farewell To Summer; We Were No Different Than You.
Naxos released a CD of Vedem in May 2011. The CD also contains the premiere recording of Fathers.
Here is a link to the Naxos e-card with audio and visual excerpts:
http://web11.streamhoster.com/naxosusa/ecards/vedem/index.html
See also Vedem Songs and Vedem Choral Excerpts.