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The Heavenly Feast
for soprano and orchestra
text by Gjertrud Schnackenberg
soprano and orchestra
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The Heavenly Feast by Gjertrud Schnackenberg is a poem which addresses itself to the final act of French theosopist and writer Simone Weil, in which she starves herself out of desire to offer nourishment to her compatriots who were suffering under the brutalities of Nazi-occupied France. It is a contemplation of a self-sacrifice as mystically inspiring as it is logically incomprehensible. The musical work, eponymous in title with the poem, takes place at Weil’s graveside. It is in the form of an interior monologue, where the soprano/protagonist reflects upon the final and quixotic path of this elusive martyr.
Orchestral Cast
3(2.pic, 3.afl).2.ca.2.bcl.2.cbsn-4.3.2.btbn.1-timp.4perc(vib, glsp, mar, crot, tub bells, s.d, field drum, 2bng, 2tom-t, 2timbales, 2slot drum, cong, b.d, 2steel pipes, 2wdbl, 3tempbl, cow bell, mexican bean, sandbl, cabaça, guiro, vibraslap, tamb, cym, 3sus cym, sizz cym, 3tibetan cym, 2tam-t, gong, sizz tam-t, thunder sheet)-hp.pno-str
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Title:
The Heavenly Feast
for soprano and orchestra
text by Gjertrud Schnackenberg
Language:
English
Edition:
Performance material
Publisher/Label:
Schott Music
Year of composition:
1994
Duration:
20 ′
World Premiere:
December 8, 1994 · Baltimore, MD (USA)
Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall
Dawn Upshaw, soprano · Conductor: James Paul · Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall
Dawn Upshaw, soprano · Conductor: James Paul · Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
Commissioned work :
Commissioned by the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, David Zinman, Music Director, and the American Composers Orchestra, through a generous gift from Randolf S Rothschild
Series:
Technical Details
Product number:
LSHM 526-01
Delivery rights:
Worldwide
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Audio:
Performances
The Heavenly Feast
Conductor: David Wiley
Orchestra: Cleveland Institute of Music
October 18, 2006 |
Cleveland, OH (United States of America)
The Heavenly Feast
Conductor: James Paul
Orchestra: Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
December 8, 1994 |
Baltimore, MD (United States of America) , Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall — World Premiere
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