Chamber Music Piano, soprano voice SKU: PR.11140159M
Composed by Jan Krzywicki. Kenneth Rexroth. Set of parts. With Standard notation. 28 pages. Duration 19 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #111-40159M. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.11140159M). UPC: 680160003181. Text: Kenneth Rexroth. Kenneth Rexroth. Kenneth Rexroth.
Four Songs after Rexroth is a night cycle of poems and Chinese translations by Kenneth Rexroth that were chosen so that they might present a linear, nocturnal musical experience. The first song begins in the aura of twilight, before proceeding in the next two songs into a night of innermost thoughts and remembrances. In the last song, at dawn, transfiguration and transcendence is attained. The musical settings seek to evoke the beauty, mystery, anxiety, and sadness of the texts; this leads, in the third song - the emotional crux of the cycle - to the abandoment of conventional text declamation in favor of a non-verbal expression.
