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Seasons

7/20/2018, 19 Tracks, 53:12

Featuring

  • Dale Warland
  • Joanna Shelton
  • Margaret Humphrey
  • Elizabeth Cregan
  • Laura Sewell
  • David Berg
  • Kathy Kienzle
  • Jeffrey Van
  • Dale Warland Singers
  • Minnesota Beethoven Festival Chorale
  • Vincent Persichetti
  • Dominick Argento

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Composer Biography

Dominick Argento, an American composer, is known for his lyric operatic and choral music, with his work greatly influenced by his instructors in the United States and his affection for Florence, Italy.

Source: Booklet

Composer Biography

Vincent Persichetti, a major figure in 20th-century American music, was known for integrating new ideas in musical composition into his work and teaching, and for training many noted composers at The Juilliard School.

Source: Booklet

Composition History

Dominick Argento's "Seasons" was a collaboration with poet Pat Solstad, with each season personified: Autumn as an actress, Winter as a painter, Spring as a baby, and Summer as a goddess.

Source: Booklet

Composition History

Dominick Argento's "Sonnet No. LXIV" was inspired by the events of September 11, 2001, and dedicated to Bruce Carlson, who brought Shakespeare's sonnet to Argento's attention.

Source: Booklet

Performer Biography

Dale Warland, the conductor, made an indelible impression on contemporary choral music, commissioning and premiering some 270 works from composers worldwide.

Source: Booklet

Composer's Artistic Vision

Vincent Persichetti's musical style was marked by the use of 'graceful' (lyrical and melodic) and 'gritty' (sharp and intensely rhythmic) elements, often employing polytonality and pandiatonicism.

Source: Booklet

Composer's Artistic Vision

Dominick Argento composed "Tria Carmina Paschalia" during a period of questioning his modernity, aiming to use dissonance and instability metaphorically to make recent innovations more acceptable to listeners.

Source: Booklet

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