House of Life, The

From Wind Repertory Project
Robert Hutchinson

Robert Hutchinson


General Info

Year: 2014
Duration: c. 13:30
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Original Medium: Voice and piano
Publisher: Unknown
Cost: Score and Parts - Unknown


Movements

1. Gracious Moonlight
2. Severed Selves
3. Mid-Rapture


Instrumentation

Full Score
Flute I-II
Oboe
English Horn
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II
B-flat Bass Clarinet
B-flat Contrabass Clarinet
Bassoon
Horn in F
Harp
Double Bass
Percussion, including:

  • Triangle
  • Vibraphone

Solo Mezzo Soprano Voice


Errata

None discovered thus far.

Program Notes

The House of Life songs were written for the composer’s wife, Dawn Padula, and premiered in London, England (June 2013) at the Song in the City Concert Series at St. Botolph-without-Bishopsgate.

The three sonnets, written by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, were selected from the same collection that Ralph Vaughan Williams chose poetry for his House of Life song cycle. Originally scored for voice and piano, Hutchinson orchestrated the work for voice and chamber winds in 2014. The orchestrated version of the work received its premiere that same year with Dawn Padula and members of the Puget Sound Wind Ensemble.

- Program Notes by composer


Media

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Media

Video: University of Puget Sound Wind Ensemble (Gerard Morris, conductor; Dawn Padula, mezzo soprano)


State Ratings

None discovered thus far.


Performances

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  • University of Puget Sound (Tacoma, Wash.) Wind Ensemble (Gerard Morris, conductor; Dawn Padula, mezzo soprano) - 3 March 2018


Works for Winds by This Composer


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