O Hototogisu!: Full Orchestra Score
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O Hototogisu!: Full Orchestra Score
Fragment of a Japonisme
By Oliver Knussen
Level: Advanced
Item: 12-0571541119
$41.99
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This exquisite "fragment of a Japonisme"---premiered in 2017 and conceived as a kind of double concerto for soprano, flute, and ensemble of 23 players---O Hototogisu! has proven to be Oliver Knussen's final work. The eight-minute piece couches seven exquisite haiku settings in richly evocative music, which incorporates signals from Japanese theater (particularly Kabuki). It concerns the Hototogisu (or Lesser Cuckoo), a bird widely invoked in Japanese haiku poetry of the 17th to 19th centuries, in which the poet listens for its arrival from the mountains both as a harbinger of summer and a voice from the land of the dead. Composed for soprano, flute, and full orchestra.
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