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Listening to the Goldberg Variations

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Price:
$15.00
Composer:
Grenfell, Maria
Instrumentation:
voice and piano
Year composed:
2021
Duration:
c. 3:00
Format:
A4, pp11, digital download (PDF)
Description:
Looking for a text to set for Jenny Wollerman’s epic 21×21 project, I came across a beautiful poem titled ‘Listening to The Goldberg Variations’ by New Zealand poet Elizabeth Smither. Rhapsodic and musical in its use of language, it paints a dreamy and imaginative picture of two people escaping a ‘disagreeable dinner party’ and finding a piano, where the gentleman plays Bach’s Goldberg Variations. It seemed an opportunity to use some snippets of Bach amidst the rest of the musical setting.
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