Women’s Strength in Song
Overview
Amanda DeBoer Bartlett, Mariami Bekauri, Anne Kissel, Sandra Leary, and Jamie Leigh Sampson have collaborated on Sample Rate, a song cycle with 8 different phone conversations throughout one woman’s life, and American Mother, with text by Pamela Hart on the imperfection of motherhood. These five collaborators will tour New York State with a recital of five works including Sample Rate, American Mother, two works by other women composers, and conclude with a new work for the collaborators to perform together.
The recital will be studio recorded and released independently with both digital and physical sales.
Project Media
with text by Jamie Leigh Sampson and Amanda DeBoer Bartlett
Amanda DeBoer Bartlett, soprano
Anne Kissel, piano
April 17, 2019
0:22 – I. May I
3:23 – II. so I turned up at Lindsey’s
9:15 – III. Himmel’s-Tür
11:55 – IV. Unreasonable
16:30 – V. 911
19:08 – VI. Plenty of Inappropriate Responses
22:54 – VII. Will you come and visit?
28:06 – VIII. Hiraeth
Concealed Imaginings was written for the Quince Contemporary Vocal Ensemble. The text is from Wallace Steven’s four poem work Peter Quince at the Clavier.
Performed by Quince Contemporary Vocal Ensemble
The Body Electric uses two lines from Walt Whitman’s poem “I Sing the Body Electric.” The first is reorganized in a matrix according to the following hierarchy and the second acts as a disruption. The jumbled words are introduced in full or partial sets until the final phrases of the piece, where they are presented in Whitman’s original order:“I am drawn by its breath as if I am no more than a than a helpless vapor all falls aside but myself and it.”
Performed by Amanda DeBoer Bartlett
Start and End Dates
08/01/2020 — 12/31/2020
Location
Fredonia, New York
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