GFA Set Piece 2014
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Commissioned by the Guitar Foundation of America for the 2014 International Concert Artist Competition Evocation after ‘Gold Are My Flowers’ Michael Lorimer ‚ New York © 2014 by Adela Publishing (ASCAP). All Rights Reserved. International Copyright Secured. Michael Lorimer, 175 West 73rd Street (10G), New York NY 10023. www.MichaelLorimer.com Composers Series CURTIS CURTIS-SMITH Edited by JORGE CABALLERO Evocation is a five-minute fantasy on one of the great twentieth-century chamber works with guitar, C. Curtis-Smith’s Gold Are My Flowers , a forty-four-minute cantata for soprano, baritone, and nine instruments. Gold was written in 1992 to commemorate the quincentennial of Columbus’s 1492 encounter with the New World. Evocation begins with the chime-like sonori- ties of guitar harmonics intoning the Navajo chant which ends Curtis-Smith’s cantata. The Navajo chant has an ecstatic, Genesis-like text: In all directions there is light. In all directions is beauty. May it be beautiful before me. It is beautiful. Smell the flowers. Hear the singing. It is beautiful. In beauty it is finished. This brief opening in Evocation quickly segues into a recitative-like march, a souvenir of the can- tata’s setting of Columbus’s words: “At dawn we saw naked people. I called them, I unfurled the royal banner, I ordered the captain of the Pinta and Niña to bear witness that I was taking possession of this island for the King and Queen. To this island I gave the name San Salvador. Having taken one island into possession, you can claim them all. Yes! You can claim them all!” As Evocation ends, the melody of the Navajo chant reappears. Michael Lorimer
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Commissioned bythe Guitar Foundation of America for the
2014 International Concert Artist Competition
Evocationafter Gold Are My Flowers
Michael Lorimer New York 2014 by Adela Publishing (ASCAP). All Rights Reserved. International Copyright Secured.
Michael Lorimer, 175 West 73rd Street (10G), New York NY 10023. www.MichaelLorimer.com
Composers SeriesCURTIS CURTISSMITH
Edited by JORGE CABALLERO
Evocation is a five-minute fantasy on one ofthe great twentieth-century chamber works with
guitar, C. Curtis-Smiths Gold Are My Flowers, aforty-four-minute cantata for soprano, baritone,
and nine instruments. Gold was written in 1992 tocommemorate the quincentennial of Columbuss
1492 encounter with the New World.
Evocation begins with the chime-like sonori-ties of guitar harmonics intoning the Navajo chant
which ends Curtis-Smiths cantata. The Navajo
chant has an ecstatic, Genesis-like text:
In all directions there is light.
In all directions is beauty.
May it be beautiful before me.
It is beautiful.
Smell the flowers.
Hear the singing.
It is beautiful.
In beauty it is finished.
This brief opening in Evocation quickly seguesinto a recitative-like march, a souvenir of the can-
tatas setting of Columbuss words: At dawn we
saw naked people. I called them, I unfurled the
royal banner, I ordered the captain of the Pinta and
Nia to bear witness that I was taking possession
of this island for the King and Queen. To this
island I gave the name San Salvador. Having taken
one island into possession, you can claim them all.
Yes! You can claim them all!
As Evocation ends, the melody of the Navajochant reappears.
Michael Lorimer
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Michael Lorimer, 175 West 73rd Street (10G), New York NY 10023. www.MichaelLorimer.com 2014 Adela Publishing (ASCAP). All Rights Reserved. International Copyright Secured.
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Edited byJorge Caballero
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