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Sewing the earthworm a song cycle for soprano and piano
RSN:
67590
|
Composition Date:
2011
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Revision Date:
N/A
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Duration:
00:14:30
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Cataloguing Information
Call Number
MV 1101 H2875se
Genre
Solo Voice with Keyboard
Material Type
Print-music
Acquisition Date
2013-05-10
Library Collection Publisher / Label
Unpublished, printed by CMC / Inédit, imprimé par le CMC
Movements
I: Soil II: Interlude III: Haiku for the Severed Annelid IV: Needle V: Interlude VI: A Second Haiku for the Severed Annelid VII: Sewing the Earthworm VIII: Epilogue
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Additional Information
Commissioned by Canadian Art Song Project.
Master Location
Toronto
Language
English
First line of Text
Imagine earthworms below the surface
,
Valgar accident my spade burst worm's
,
I am going to get this thread
,
I'm sewing an earthworm
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Physical Description
Found 1 record(s)
Available Actions
Extent of Item
1 score (33 p.) ;
Instrumentation
Found 2 record(s)
Available Actions
Set No.
Category
Instrument
Number
44483
Keyboard
Piano
1
44483
Voices
Soprano
1
Divided
No
Solo
No
Divided
No
Solo
No
Premiere
Toronto Richard Bradshaw Auditorium, Canadian Opera Company 6 Mar 2012 Carla Huhtanen, soprano; Stephen Philcox, piano
The character in Sewing the Earthworm is inspired by 1970s punk rock icon Wendy O. Williams. The work dramatizes a private frustration as she looks back on a fragmented life, from the radical punk aesthetic to champion of environmental issues, before her suicide in 1998. This character relates to many other iconic artists: Frida Kahlo, Anaïs Nin and Elizabeth Bishop, for example. Because of these artists’ outspokenness, we find their human weaknesses even more intriguing.The setting for the piece is inspired by an anecdote about Albert Einstein: he loved to garden, but couldn’t bear the accidental killing of creatures living in the ground. Sewing the Earthworm begins with a lonely woman contemplating her garden as a haven for both herself and the many forms of life she tends to within it.The language of Sewing the Earthworm is that of myth, poetry, and spectacle. A physically deteriorating woman remains thankful that her hands can still control larger clumps of dirt in the maintenance of her private garden. She remembers her former abilities, especially with finer manual endeavours, and laments that her mind has remained long enough to know her body’s condition. When she accidentally cuts an earthworm in half while gardening, she decides to attach the pieces with needle and thread to save its life. The seemingly futile attempt is compounded by her desire to prove that physical control has not abandoned her, and the piece makes a rapid shift both musically and textually as a mental struggle takes over.
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