Tres canciones (2012)
soprano, guitar - 12'
I. Soy feliz
II. Aleación
III. Estás en mi
texts by Saturnino de la Torre
Soprano Andrea Ramos and I are not only musical colleagues but also worked in the same library during graduate school. While working together and sharing stories I learned that her stepfather, Saturnino de la Torre, is a poet whose collection of love poems to her mother was soon to be published. Andrea put me in contact with him and he graciously allowed me to set three of his poems to music for Andrea to sing (before the collection was published no less).
Given the intimate nature of the poems, I tried to be fairly transparent and direct musically, using relatively simple melodic and harmonic ideas. I also used fairly straight-forward musical forms to allow the sophisticated structure and imagery of the poems to come through without distraction.
I. Soy feliz
II. Aleación
III. Estás en mi
texts by Saturnino de la Torre
Soprano Andrea Ramos and I are not only musical colleagues but also worked in the same library during graduate school. While working together and sharing stories I learned that her stepfather, Saturnino de la Torre, is a poet whose collection of love poems to her mother was soon to be published. Andrea put me in contact with him and he graciously allowed me to set three of his poems to music for Andrea to sing (before the collection was published no less).
Given the intimate nature of the poems, I tried to be fairly transparent and direct musically, using relatively simple melodic and harmonic ideas. I also used fairly straight-forward musical forms to allow the sophisticated structure and imagery of the poems to come through without distraction.
