A Load of Shoes

2004 | baritone or mezzo-soprano/cello/piano

Poem by Vilna Ghetto survivor Abraham Sutzkever,translated by C.K. Williams

Song 2 of The Seed of Dream

Commissioned by Music of Remembrance, Seattle, WA.

To purchase Erich Parce, Amos Yang and Mina Miller performing this song, please click here

Click here to see a YouTube video from a live performance at St. Katerine Catheral in Vilnius, Lithuania on Jan 27, 2009. The video features baritone Stein Skjervold (Norway), cellist Tom Collingwood (UK) and pianist Sonata Zuboviene (Lithuania).

Errata

Some newer editions may already have these corrections.

• Tempo should be 88 to a dotted quarter
• Piano dynamic in m. 109 should be p or mp
• cello part
  • m. 36, there should be a slide up from the F to the F
  • m. 122, there should be a slur on the B to the E
  • the last two measures should be an octave down

Beneath the Whiteness of Your Stars

2004 | baritone or mezzo-soprano/cello/piano

Poem by Vilna Ghetto survivor Abraham Sutzkever,translated by Leonard Wolf

Song 4 of The Seed of Dream

Commissioned by Music of Remembrance, Seattle, WA.

To purchase the mp3 with Erich Parce, Amos Yang and Mina Miller, please click here

Click here to see a YouTube video from a live performance at St. Katerine Catheral in Vilnius, Lithuania on Jan 27, 2009. It features baritone Stein Skjervold (Norway), cellist Tom Collingwood (UK) and pianist Sonata Zuboviene (Lithuania).

Errata

Some newer editions may already have these corrections.

• m.2 should be identical to m. 1. The G on beat 2 should be a G sharp.

I Lie in This Coffin

2004 | baritone or mezzo-soprano/cello/piano

Poem by Vilna Ghetto survivor Abraham Sutzkever,translated by C.K. Williams

Song 1 of The Seed of Dream

Commissioned by Music of Remembrance, Seattle, WA.

Click here to see a YouTube video from a live performance at St. Katerine Catheral in Vilnius, Lithuania on Jan 27, 2009. It features baritone Stein Skjervold (Norway), cellist Tom Collingwood (UK) and pianist Sonata Zuboviene (Lithuania).

Errata

Piano, Left Hand, m. 54-56 — should be up 8va

No Sad Songs, Please

2004 | baritone or mezzo-soprano/cello/piano

Poem by Vilna Ghetto survivor Abraham Sutzkever,translated by C.K. Williams

Song 5 of The Seed of Dream

Commissioned by Music of Remembrance, Seattle, WA.

Click here to see a YouTube video from a live performance at St. Katerine Catheral in Vilnius, Lithuania on Jan 27, 2009. It features baritone Stein Skjervold (Norway), cellist Tom Collingwood (UK) and pianist Sonata Zuboviene (Lithuania).

Errata

Some newer editions may already have these corrections.

• Base tempo can range between 88 and 92.

The Seed of Dream

Song cycle: I Lie in This Coffin; A Load of Shoes; To My Child; Beneath the Whiteness of Your Stars; No Sad Songs, Please

2004 | baritone or mezzo-soprano/cello/piano

Poems by Vilna Ghetto survivor Abraham Sutzkever, with translations by C.K. Williams and Leonard Wolf.

Commissioned by Music of Remembrance, Seattle, WA in 2005. 18 minutes for the cycle.

To purchase the Naxos recording, please click here.

Independent Opera Company's marvelous film about The Seed of Dream can be viewed here. 

To My Child

2004 | baritone or mezzo-soprano/cello/piano

Poem by Vilna Ghetto survivor Abraham Sutzkever,translated by C.K. Williams

Song 3 of The Seed of Dream

Commissioned by Music of Remembrance, Seattle, WA.

Click here to see a YouTube video from a live performance at St. Katerine Catheral in Vilnius, Lithuania on Jan 27, 2009. It features baritone Stein Skjervold (Norway), cellist Tom Collingwood (UK) and pianist Sonata Zuboviene (Lithuania).

Errata

Some newer editions may already have these corrections.

• All tempos in the song should be slightly slower (i.e., instead of a quarter = 69 at beginning, quarter = 66, etc. Tempos are guidelines anyway.