NEW CD - Elizabeth Vercoe
04/01/19 07:42 Filed in: new release
Elizabeth Vercoe has been hailed by the Washington Post as “one of the most inventive composers working in America today.” Lauded as “an exceptionally gifted composer with a fine technical command and a keen sensitivity to sound materials,” she has attended concerts of her music all over the world.
Her new album Butterfly Effects and other works comprises of two instrumental pieces and two song cycles - including Herstory I. composed in 1975, her first one in a dramatic series of song cycles on texts by women poets. Varying in instrumentation from solo voice to use of the complete trio of voice and instruments, the songs relate a woman's life experiences: finding freedom only in madness, coming to her child in the midst of a nightmare, growing older with her partner, expressing bitterness about aging, and dreaming at 80 of her youth. Stay tuned to Radio Monalisa in January to hear tracks from this new release.
Butterfly Effects and other works - Navona Records NV6196
Her new album Butterfly Effects and other works comprises of two instrumental pieces and two song cycles - including Herstory I. composed in 1975, her first one in a dramatic series of song cycles on texts by women poets. Varying in instrumentation from solo voice to use of the complete trio of voice and instruments, the songs relate a woman's life experiences: finding freedom only in madness, coming to her child in the midst of a nightmare, growing older with her partner, expressing bitterness about aging, and dreaming at 80 of her youth. Stay tuned to Radio Monalisa in January to hear tracks from this new release.
Butterfly Effects and other works - Navona Records NV6196
