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Voyages - For Baritone and Piano

Voyages - For Baritone and Piano

Franceschina, John

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ISBN13: 9798887717845
Publisher: BearManor Media
Published: Jul 17 2025
Pages: 42
Weight: 0.26
Height: 0.09 Width: 8.25 Depth: 11.00
Language: English

VOYAGES was commissioned in 1986 by baritone David Stephens for the New Music Festival sponsored by the School of Music at Florida State University. It was premiered by David Stephens accompanied by the composer at the Dohnányi Recital Hall in Tallahassee, Florida, on 28 April 1988. A song cycle for high baritone, Voyages consists of tonal musical settings for Hart Crane's six love poems (said to be inspired by his relationship with Emil Opffer, a blond, blue-eyed sailor from Denmark) published under the title of Voyages in his collection, White Buildings: Poems (1926). Above the fresh ruffles of the surf launches the series in a buoyant musical setting, while And yet this great wink of eternity follows with a musically passionate and majestic tone. Infinite consanguinity it bears composed as a lyrically expressive adagio, and the quasi recitative Whose counted smile of hours and days give rise to a folk-like setting of Meticulous, past midnight in clear rime, the accompaniment to which develops into a kind of perpetual motion as the voice climbs ardently to its highest notes. Recapitulating the buoyant tone of the first song, Where icy and bright dungeons lift ends the cycle in a bravura musical tour de force.

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