Live performance at
Tenri Cultural Center, NYC
9 October 2015
Video
Dennis Tobenski, tenor
Marc Peloquin, piano
Duration
1 1/2 min.
Text
Jorn Ake
:
Lullaby for a Young Road
Program Notes
Lullaby for a Young Road
At day’s end, I lie down
like a quiet path.
I say my name before I sleep
once secretly,
and once to my path
so that it may remember my location. Little Traveler, I say, when I wake,
Carry me like a lamb to my name.
Live performance at
Tenri Cultural Center, NYC
9 October 2015
Video
Dennis Tobenski, tenor
Marc Peloquin, piano
Duration
1 1/2 min.
Text
Jorn Ake
:
Lullaby for a Young Road
Program Notes
Lullaby for a Young Road
At day’s end, I lie down
like a quiet path.
I say my name before I sleep
once secretly,
and once to my path
so that it may remember my location. Little Traveler, I say, when I wake,
Carry me like a lamb to my name.
Dennis Tobenski is a composer of acoustic new music, a vocalist, and a strong advocate for new music and for the interests of living composers.
Dennis’s Only Air, a 20-minute work for high voice and orchestra memorializing the gay teenagers who have taken their own lives in recent years, was commissioned by the Illinois State University Symphony Orchestra, and has been performed in a chamber version by The Secret Opera in New York and members of the Bay Area Rainbow Symphony.
In February 2016, he and pianist Marc Peloquin released their first album together, a disc of art songs by living American composers titled And He’ll Be Mine.
Dennis received his B.Mus. in Vocal Performance and Music Theory & Composition from Illinois State University, and his M.A. in Music Composition from The City College of New York.
His principal teachers have included David Del Tredici, Chester Biscardi, and David Feurzeig. He is a member of the Board of Advisors for Composers Now, and the Board of Directors of the KeyedUp MusicProject. Dennis lives in New York City with his husband Darien Scott Shulman and their cat Pistachio.
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