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Errollyn WallenErrollyn Wallen: What Shall I Sing? performed at Other Minds 5, 1999 (March 25, 1999)

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Errollyn Wallen performs the U.S. premiere of her Songs cycle at the Other Minds Music Festival in 1999 at the Cowell Theater in San Francisco.

The presentation of this work was made possible with the support of Jeanne & Howard Baumgarten.

Errollyn Wallen, Songs
What Shall I Sing?

Errollyn Wallen, voice & piano

On Songs:
Errollyn Wallen's first attempt at songwriting bubbled up subconsciously in one hour into What's Up Doc?, full of absurd lyrics which dissolve toward a social pathos of contemporary loneliness. A song to melt your heart, Guru is only gradually perceived as a satire on the promise held out by certain unscrupulous new age spiritual leaders. What Shal I Sing? emerged after the end of a love relationship and includes a play on the Victorian rhyme, "Sing, sing what shall I sing? The cat has turned into a pudding string." Wallen learned the poem from her composition teacher David Lumsdaine who wrote a setting of the actual folk rhyme. Beginning in A major and concluding in G Minor, The Lighthouse is a touching tribute to a California composer-pianist friend, Ronald Avant, who died of AIDS in 1990. Magritte Man is a meditation on childhood days, imagination, and bowler-hatted men, and girls, in the clouds.
- Charles Amirkhanian


This audio is part of the collection: Other Minds Archive

Artist/Composer: Errollyn Wallen
Date: 1999-03-25 00:00:00
Source: Other Minds
Label / Recorded by: Other Minds
Keywords: Avantgarde; 20th Century Classical

Creative Commons license: Attribution-NoDerivs-NonCommercial

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