Alisson Kruusmaa
Of All the Sounds
Duration: 9'
Solos:
mezzo-soprano
Instrumentation details:
piano
violoncello
Of All the Sounds
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Alisson Kruusmaa
Mezzosopran (Of All the Sounds)
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Type: Solostimme(n)
Alisson Kruusmaa
Of All the Sounds
Available digitally
Orchestration: for mezzo-soprano, violoncello and piano
Type: Dirigierpartitur
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Work introduction
Of All the Sounds (2021) for mezzo-soprano, violoncello and piano is a three-movement song cycle inspired by Emily Dickinson’s (1830–1886) poem:
Of all the sounds despatched abroad,
There’s not a charge to me
Like that old measure in the boughs,
That phraseless melody
The wind does, working like a hand
Whose fingers brush the sky,
Then quiver down, with tufts of tune
Permitted gods and me.
When winds go round and round in bands,
And thrum upon the door,
And birds take places overhead,
To bear them orchestra
I crave him grace, of summer boughs,
If such an outcast be,
He never heard that fleshless chant
Rise solemn in the tree,
As if some caravan of sound
On deserts, in the sky,
Had broken rank,
Then knit, and passed
In seamless company.