Pictures of the Floating World

in six movements

Instrumentation: Soprano and Piano

Completed: August 30, 2008, rev. August 22, 2009

Commissioned by: the Lotte Lehmann Foundation, Linn Maxwell, President

Duration: 18 minutes

Text: from Pictures of the Floating World and Sword Blades and Poppy Seed by Amy Lowell (1874-1925)

Premiered: February 14, 2009, by Katharine Dain, soprano, and Jeanne-Minette Cilliers, piano at the Lincoln Center Library, New York, NY


Commissioned as a result of first prize in the 2007 ASCAP / Lotte Lehmann Foundation Art Song Competition

Audio

I. "The Garden by Moonlight"(Judith Kellock, soprano; Zachary Wadsworth, piano)

II. "Opal"(Judith Kellock, soprano; Zachary Wadsworth, piano)

V. "Aubade"(Judith Kellock, soprano; Zachary Wadsworth, piano)

Performances (2)

February 14, 2009, 3:00 pm
(premiere)		Katharine Dain, soprano; Jeanne-Minette Cilliers, piano

Bruno Walter Auditorium, Lincoln Center Library, New York, NY
February 22, 2009, 8:00 pmJudith Kellock, soprano; Zachary Wadsworth, piano

Barnes Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY