Aging

2017
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Vocal Music

Details

Category

Vocal Music

Composed

February 2017

instrumentation

trumpet, trombone, bass clarinet and baritone voice

duration

2 minutes

commissioned by

premiered

March 21, 2017 by loadbang at the Dimenna Center in New York City

Purchase Score

Poetry by Adam Lefaivre

Recorded by loadbang on February 17, 2017 at Richland College

Performed again by loadbang at Opera America in New York City on April 18, 2019

Program Notes

"Quinn Mason’s Aging is a setting of a poem of the same name by Adam Lefaivre. Mason sets the poem's two lines into a moving and condensed jewel of a miniature, beautifully exploiting the emotional character of various registers of instrument and voice alike." - loadbang