Commissioned by Maria Jette. Texts by Walter de la Mare, Emily Dickinson, Charles Causley.
Green Magic Songs was written for Maria Jette as an addition to her collection of songs for solo soprano a cappella. It happened thus: I hired her a few years ago for a read-through of an opera I was working on, and I asked her how much she would charge. She said, “Oh, let’s not talk about boring old money. Write me a piece; here are some text suggestions.” Over the course of the next year and a half, I set all three of them. They were premiered at a Schubert Club Courtroom Concert in St. Paul’s Landmark Center on April 14, 2016.
Genre
Instrumentation
solo soprano
Listen
Recording by Maria Jette, soprano
No. 1 – A Song of Enchantment
No. 2 – Time and Eternity
No. 3 – Green Man in the Garden
Duration
c. 4:30
Year Written
2015