House of Life, The
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
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- University of Puget Sound (Tacoma, Wash.) Wind Ensemble (Gerard Morris, conductor; Dawn Padula, mezzo soprano) - 3 March 2018
Works for Winds by This Composer
- As the Blue Night Descends Upon the World (2007)
- Beyond the Dark Horizon
- Concerto for Violin and Wind Ensemble (2009)
- Dancing on the Strand
- The Forest Nocturnal Triptych (2009)
- Musser Overture
- The Slow Voyage Through Night (1999)
- Suite for Wind Quartet (2006)
- The House of Life (2014)
Resources
- Robert Hutchinson website Accessed 17 October 2020