William Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience date from the turbulent period in English and American history when the United States was in its infancy. Occupying 25 years of William Bolcom's compositional life, his "musical illuminations," inspired by Blake's own wide panoply of poetic styles in the cycle, travel thrillingly from intense dissonance to folk, rock, and reggae to encompass the breadth of the Blakean spiritual universe.
Performers: Brewer, Christine (Soprano), Davidson, Ilana (Soprano), Bruggergosman, Measha (Soprano), Ford-Livene, Nmon (Baritone), Hohenfeld, Linda (Soprano), Morris, Joan (Mezzo Soprano), Pelton, Carmen (Soprano), Simpson, Marietta (Mezzo Soprano), Young, Thomas (Tenor), Graham, Nathan Lee (Spoken Vocals), Morgan, Tommy (Harmonica), Ruth, Peter "Madcat" (Harmonica), Kittel, Jeremy (Fiddle)
University Musical Society Choral Union
Michigan University Orpheus Singers and Symphony Orchestra
Contemporary Directions Ensemble
Conductor: Leonard Slatkin |
