The Harsh Truth of the Camera Eye
So, it turns out that the last piece I had performed got .
Well sort of:
"Selected from a call for scores offered to Longy student composers, Three Final Songs (2005) for soprano and mixed chamber group by Gregory Wollenman is a brooding piece that wears its love of Mussorgsky's Songs and Dances of Death on its sleeve to the point of quoting several passages from it. Here, one can favorably cite Wollenman's willingness to lay himself emotionally open through the score's pages."
Full concert review here.
So, yeah, it's not much of a review. It doesn't really seem to be all that good or all that bad...or all that much of anything. & I only quoted Mussorgsky twice, & pointed it out in the pre-concert talk. Actually I wouldn't be surprised if he just left after the talk & didn't even listen to the piece, from what he wrote. But, what can you do? Still, it is kinda neat, well sort of.
Incidentally, on the off chance anyone is interested in listening to the aforementioned piece, here it is:
Three Final Songs (2004-2005)
I - "Come to the Orchid in Spring" (Rumi)
II - Lament (Rilke)
III - The Last Toast (Akhmatova)
Well sort of:
"Selected from a call for scores offered to Longy student composers, Three Final Songs (2005) for soprano and mixed chamber group by Gregory Wollenman is a brooding piece that wears its love of Mussorgsky's Songs and Dances of Death on its sleeve to the point of quoting several passages from it. Here, one can favorably cite Wollenman's willingness to lay himself emotionally open through the score's pages."
Full concert review here.
So, yeah, it's not much of a review. It doesn't really seem to be all that good or all that bad...or all that much of anything. & I only quoted Mussorgsky twice, & pointed it out in the pre-concert talk. Actually I wouldn't be surprised if he just left after the talk & didn't even listen to the piece, from what he wrote. But, what can you do? Still, it is kinda neat, well sort of.
Incidentally, on the off chance anyone is interested in listening to the aforementioned piece, here it is:
Three Final Songs (2004-2005)
I - "Come to the Orchid in Spring" (Rumi)
II - Lament (Rilke)
III - The Last Toast (Akhmatova)