Earl Kim
Now & Then
Earl Kim
Now & Then
- Besetzung Querflöte, Harfe, Gesang (hoch) und Viola
- Komponist Earl Kim
- Ausgabe Partitur
- Verlag Theodore Presser Company
- Bestell-Nr. PRES141-40036S
Lieferzeit 2-4 Wochen
Beschreibung:
While serving as a combat intelligence officer in the U.S. Army Air Force; I flew over Nagasaki on August 10; 1945; just 24 hours after the bomb was dropped. On August 8; 1981; some 36 years later; almost to the day; Now and Then was completed in its first version for voice and piano. Although each of the songs was conceived in a day; the years that intervened between their completion and Nagasaki seemed to have been necessary before they could be set down. The texts which I finally settled on cover a range of poetic images dealing with the death of friends; the innocence and vulnerability of daffodils; the loneliness of one's final moment; and Chekhov's prophetic vision of an earth which for thousands of years… has borne no living creature. The present version of Now and Then for soprano; flute; harp and viola received its first performance in Chicago on January 22; 1982; with Elsa Charlston; soprano and the Chicago Contemporary Chamber Players; Ralph Shapey; conductor. It was commissioned by the Department of Music of the University of Chicago and dedicated to Paul Fromm in celebration of his seventy-fifth birthday. The dedication is uniquely appropriate for a man who has given life-long support to the creation and performance of new American music. - Earl Kim