Description

The first song from the song cycle Shom, Man goes into noisy crowd, is a virtuosicmovement. In its vocal part I play a lot with vowels and syllables. In the middle of thesong there is a partly improvised cadenza for voice. The second song, When the sungoes down, is a simple and static movement, a descending line. Its Bengalese wordsremind of a sunset seen from the East. By the time of composing this movement Iwas fascinated by the possibility of the accordion to produce a continuous line, whichvibrates without any interruptions or pauses. Both songs are from the song cycle Shom.

Instrumentation

mezzo, acc

Category

Vocal and Choral Works

Language

En

Premiere

Virpi Räisänen-Midth, mezzosoprano, Timo Kinnunen, accordion. Time of Music,Viitasaari (Finland) 7 July 2007 Fbp: Jutta Seppinen, mezzosoprano and Veli Kujala, accordion; Meeri Pulakka, soprano and Antti Leinonen, accordion, 100,3 Mhz, 13 September, 2010.

Movements

I Man goes into noisy crowd, II When the sun goes down

Commisioned by / dedications

Dedicated to Timo Kinnunen and Virpi Räisänen-Midth.

Archive number

MF20354

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