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Blessed : improvising piano and two vocalists
- Title
- Blessed : improvising piano and two vocalists / Courtney Bryan.
- Author
- Bryan, Courtney
- Publication
- [London, England] : Boosey & Hawkes, [2023]
- ©2020
- Supplementary Content
- Composer's note
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Details
- Additional Authors
- McClodden, Tiona Nekkia
- Description
- 1 score (9 pages); 31 cm
- Uniform Title
- Blessed. Selections
- Beatitudes.
- Alternative Title
- Blessed.
- Blessed are the meek
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Art music.
- Chamber music.
- Dramatic music.
- Excerpts.
- Improvisations (Music)
- Musical settings.
- Sacred music.
- Scores.
- Music theater.
- Operas.
- Note
- "Commissioned by Opera Philadelphia; written for Damian Norfleet and Janinah Burnett; video by Tiona Nekkia McClodden"--Caption.
- Includes guidance for improvisations and notes for use with the piano recording; details on piano or video recordings not included.
- "Courtney Bryan's Blessed is a multi-layered exploration of darkness and light, hope and love, weaving together musical recordings and film footage from New Orleans, New York, and Philadelphia. Created as a response to the milestone events of 2020--the uprising in response to police brutality against Black men and women, the November election--Blessed reflects upon the Christian Bible's avowal that the meek will one day 'inherit the earth'. The constraints of creating new opera during a pandemic resulted in an innovative cross-country collaboration amongst Bryan (who also plays piano for the film), filmmaker Tiona Nekkia McClodden, soprano Janinah Burnett, vocalist Damian Norfleet, and sound designer Rob Kaplowitz. Using improvisation as a guiding principle, each artist offered original ideas in conversation with Bryan's score. The result is a deeply personal musical and visual reflection upon how to find hope during difficult times."--Program note by Opera Philadelphia on publisher's website.
- Language (note)
- English words, also printed separately as text.
- Contents
- Poor -- Hope.
- Call Number
- JMG 24-368
- OCLC
- 1393184589
- Author
- Bryan, Courtney, composer.
- Title
- Blessed : improvising piano and two vocalists / Courtney Bryan.
- Publisher
- [London, England] : Boosey & Hawkes, [2023]
- Copyright Date
- ©2020
- Edition
- Vocal score.
- Type of Content
- notated music
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Language
- English words, also printed separately as text.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- McClodden, Tiona Nekkia, filmmaker.
- Running Title
- Blessed are the meek
- Added Title
- Musical setting of (work): Beatitudes.
- Research Call Number
- JMG 24-368