First Fall 2008 Quiz for the Theoreticians and subsequently in the lab recording Babel: III And the Lord Scattered Them (with BBC sound files from 22 different countries, to wit
Algeria
Bolivia
Central African Republic
China
Columbia
Czech Republic
Ethiopia
France
Greece
Hungary
India
Kenya
Morocco
Nepal
Niger
Paraguay
Peru
Slovakia
Spain
Turkey
United Kingdom
Zaire [now back to Congo, of course]),
Iliad: II. Odysseus,
and Mice and Men: Act V, Scene 2 A, B, all in instrumental versions (Wayne and Maria last Sunday again, Scene 2 F "And I can tend the rabbits").
Zip past home and off to Davis to get scores for the last movement of the below, in its orchestral version --
Opus 62: Six Romances on Verses by English Poets for bass and piano (1942)
Poems by Walter Raleigh, Robert Burns, and William Shakespeare;
translation by Boris Pasternak and Samuil Marshak.
1. To a Son: Largo
2. In the Fields: Moderato
3. Macpherson's Farewell: Allegretto
4. Jenny: Moderato
5. Tired with All These: Lento
6. The King's Campaign: Allegretto
Dedicated to Lev Atovmian (no. 1), Shostakovich's wife Nina (2), Izaak Glikman (3), Yuri Sviridov (4), Ivan Sollertinsky (5) and Vissarion Shebalin (6).
First performance: June 6, 1943, Moscow Conservatory by E. Flaks (baritone) and the composer-pianist.
Opus 62A: Six Romances on Verses by English Poets for bass and orchestra (1943)
Orchestration of opus 62.
Unpublished; later version opus 140.
Opus 140: Six Romances on Verses by English Poets for bass and chamber-orchestra (1971)
Chamber-orchestral version of opus 62 (1942).
-- and the Hosanna sections of the Benjamin Britten War Requiem Sanctus,
the former as an orchestrational guide to The Wind God: XIII. We Almost Mutaneed and the latter as a check to orchestration of Iliad Songs: III Achilles.
Finally returning home, do and corroborate orchestrations as above.
