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Saylor: The Hunting of the Snark

3/6/2012, 11 Tracks, 1:13:34

Featuring

  • Gisèle Becker
  • Cantate Chamber Singers
  • Holton-Arms Lower School Chorus
  • The Snark Pit-band
  • Snark Ensemble
  • Maurice Saylor
  • Phil Carluzzo
  • Andrew Earle Simpson

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Performer Biography

Gisèle Becker, the Music Director of Cantate Chamber Singers since 1994, is a leading choral conductor in the Washington, D.C., area and also serves as Director of Choral Activities at The George Washington University.

Source: Booklet

Compositional Technique

The instrumentation in Maurice Saylor's "The Hunting of the Snark" plays an important role in characterization, with exotic instruments like banjo and accordion representing the menace of the Snark/Boojum.

Source: Booklet

Composer Biography

Maurice Saylor is a composer and performer from Washington, D.C., known for his vocal, chamber, and silent film music, often featuring unusual instrument combinations and blurring genre boundaries.

Source: Booklet

Composer's Artistic Vision

Composer Maurice Saylor chose a non-traditional "Snarkestra" for his setting of "The Hunting of the Snark," using instruments he describes as "reviled by society at large" instead of a standard orchestra.

Source: Booklet

Composition History

Lewis Carroll's epic nonsense poem, "The Hunting of the Snark," was written in 1874 and tells the story of ten characters whose names all begin with the letter 'B'.

Source: Booklet

Compositional Technique

Maurice Saylor's "The Hunting of the Snark" uses a main theme that vacillates between major and minor, starting on the note 'B' to align with the many 'B' characters in the poem.

Source: Booklet

Recording & Production

This album features two distinct ensembles: the Cantate Chamber Singers and The Snark Pit-band for "The Hunting of the Snark," and The Snark Ensemble for the "New Music for Vintage Silent Film Comedies."

Source: Booklet

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