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A native of New York City, Allen Brings received a Bachelor of Arts degree magna cum laude from Queens College and a Master of Arts degree from Columbia University, where he was a Mosenthal Fellow and a student of Otto Luening, and a doctorate in theory and composition from Boston University, where he was …
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Requiem for mixed choir and string orchestra (piano score)
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mixed choir and piano
1991/2004
22 minutes
32 pages
Website: http://www.is.svitonline.com/shchetynsky
1991/2004
22 minutes
32 pages
Website: http://www.is.svitonline.com/shchetynsky
Requiem: Sanctus
Requiem: Benedictus
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Requiem for choir and strings is written for the traditional Latin text. As in my other compositions in the recent years, I continue here the development of a new metalanguage that includes stylistic elements from various periods: Gregorian Chant and early polyphony, Baroque figures, operatic melodies of the 19th century, modernistic innovations of the 20th century... In contrast to collage techniques and poly-stylistics (L. Berio, M. Kagel, A. Schnittke), this meta-language smoothes the contrasts between various styles and incorporates them as much as possible into one discourse, making the transitions from one style to another imperceptible.
I aim at overcoming eclecticism and finding a new unity in a combination of those musical elements that historically never existed next to each other. Placed in an unexpected context, these splinters of old styles and epochs are transformed and affect each other. In the foreground, one sees not the neatness of stylization, but the adaptation of borrowed idioms, a personal "comment" on them. Music that on the surface may remind one of familiar classics - something from Verdi, Brahms or Palestrina, nevertheless reflects the sensibility of our own global and universal time which is aiming at a dialogue of cultures and their interaction.
The work was premiered in 2004 at the festival Contrasts in Lviv, Ukraine, by the chamber choir Gloria and the chamber orchestra Leopolis conducted by Volodymyr Syvokhip.
I aim at overcoming eclecticism and finding a new unity in a combination of those musical elements that historically never existed next to each other. Placed in an unexpected context, these splinters of old styles and epochs are transformed and affect each other. In the foreground, one sees not the neatness of stylization, but the adaptation of borrowed idioms, a personal "comment" on them. Music that on the surface may remind one of familiar classics - something from Verdi, Brahms or Palestrina, nevertheless reflects the sensibility of our own global and universal time which is aiming at a dialogue of cultures and their interaction.
The work was premiered in 2004 at the festival Contrasts in Lviv, Ukraine, by the chamber choir Gloria and the chamber orchestra Leopolis conducted by Volodymyr Syvokhip.
| Website: | http://www.is.svitonline.com/shchetynsky |
| Email: | shchetynsky@mail.ru |
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