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Bestiary
by Frank A. Wallace
Six comic songs of medium to high difficulty for baritone and mezzo-soprano; op. 20.
Duration: 12:00
I. The Sloth - Roethke
II. The Cow - Roethke [baritone solo]
III. The Lady and the Bear - Roethke
IV. The Star Nosed Mole - Knowles [soprano solo]
V. The Snake [narrator and guitar]
VI. The Serpent - Roethke
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Hear it on Tracks 9-14 of Duo LiveOak's CD Woman of the Water
Bestiary
09  The Sloth Theodore Roethke 2:47
10 The Cow Theodore Roethke 0:31
11 The Lady and the Bear Theodore Roethke 3:15
12 The Star-nosed Mole Nancy Knowles 1:24
13 The Snake Theodore Roethke 0:54
14 The Serpent Theodore Roethke 3:29
Bestiary was conceived as a light, comic moment to end our concerts with. The texts are tongue-in-cheek commentaries on the lifestyles and characteristics of animals by Theodore Roethke and Nancy Knowles. You will hear a touch of Broadway from the Bear, lumbering imitative melodies from the Sloth, dark subterranean 12-tone arpeggios in the Mole, a jolly English country tune from the Cow, bluesy dissonance from the Snake and wild rhythms and wailing cries from the Serpent.
"Duo Live Oak…presented an exquisite program of their own music including Bestiary, a set of pieces built around poems by Theodore Roethke. These are lovely pieces with just the merest astringency of modernist tonalities." Mark Greenberg on the First Skidmore College Guitar Festival, October 29, 2005 [www.nyccgs.org]
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