{"id":3789,"date":"2023-05-16T15:37:37","date_gmt":"2023-05-16T15:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.northstarmusicllc.com\/?post_type=product&#038;p=3789"},"modified":"2025-01-23T16:34:10","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T21:34:10","slug":"lonely-hearts","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.northstarmusicllc.com\/index.php\/product\/lonely-hearts\/","title":{"rendered":"Lonely Hearts"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Lonely Hearts (Duo song cycle)<\/h3>\n<p>2008<br \/>\nDuo song cycle for soprano, baritone and piano<br \/>\n22\u2032 duration<br \/>\nText: Wendy Cope, from <i>Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis<\/i> and <i>Serious Concerns<\/i>.<br \/>\nPremiere\u20142008, by Sara Williamson Kantor, Lawrence Weller and Claudia Chen, Minneapolis, MN.<br \/>\n50 pages<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<ol>\n<li>A Simple Wish (S &amp; B)<\/li>\n<li>The expense of spirits (B)<\/li>\n<li>The Uncertainty of the Poet (S &amp; B)<\/li>\n<li>A Serious Person (S)<\/li>\n<li>Reading Scheme (S &amp; B)<\/li>\n<li>Advertisement (B)<\/li>\n<li>Giving Up Smoking (S)<\/li>\n<li>The Reading (S &amp; B)<\/li>\n<li>The Orange (S &amp; B)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Program note<\/h3>\n<p>In July 2007 I found a little book of poems by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/bio\/wendy-cope\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wendy Cope<\/a> in a bookstore in Aberaeron, Wales. Born near London in 1945, Cope was a primary school teacher before going freelance in 1986. She achieved recognition right away, receiving a Cholmondeley Award and the Braude Award for Light Verse by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsandletters.org\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">American Academy of Arts and Letters<\/a> in 1995. She is now a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Cope\u2019s poems are direct, concise and above all, funny. Her formal verse catches the most casual contemporary detail. She looks at the world with the eyes of a child, but then the child speaks in Dorothy Parker\u2019s voice. And her wit spares no one.<\/p>\n<p>The selection here is my own. The poems themselves are transparent, but you might like to know that \u201cA Simple Wish,\u201d like \u201cReading Scheme,\u201d is written in an old Italian form called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.poets.org\/poetsorg\/text\/poetic-form-villanelle\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">villanelle<\/a>. \u201cThe Uncertainty of the Poet\u201d uses only ten different words. I used a kind of \u201cserial\u201d technique in setting it, assigning a sonority\u2014a chord, rhythm, pitch, even a trill\u2014to each word, then letting the sequences take their course. Among many references, you\u2019ll recognize tango and faux-Beethoven. Tesco\u2019s\u00ae is a British retail chain like Target\u00ae\u2014but they sell wine.<\/p>\n<p><i>Lonely Hearts<\/i> is dedicated to Sara Williamson Kantor, Lawrence Weller and Claudia Chen.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<hr \/>\n<p>\u201cI very much enjoyed listening to the songs. I like the way you\u2019ve managed to bring out the humour in my poems\u2014it\u2019s great to hear the audience laughing. I like all your settings, but I think my favourite is The Uncertainly of the Poet.\u201d Wendy Cope, email to the composer, 2009<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><code>[dflip id=\"3858\" type=\"thumb\"                ][\/dflip]<\/code><\/p>\n[audio m4a=\"https:\/\/www.northstarmusicllc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/04-Lonely-Hearts\u20131.-A-Simple-Wish.m4a\"][\/audio]\n<p>A Simple Wish<\/p>\n[audio m4a=\"https:\/\/www.northstarmusicllc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/05-Lonely-Hearts\u20132.-The-Expense-of-Spirits.m4a\"][\/audio]\n<p>The Expense of Spirts<\/p>\n[audio m4a=\"https:\/\/www.northstarmusicllc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/06-Lonely-Hearts\u20133.-The-Uncertainty-of-the-Poet.m4a\"][\/audio]\n<p>The Uncertainty of the Poet<\/p>\n[audio m4a=\"https:\/\/www.northstarmusicllc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/07-Lonely-Hearts\u20134.-A-Serious-Person.m4a\"][\/audio]\n<p>A Serious Person<\/p>\n[audio m4a=\"https:\/\/www.northstarmusicllc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/08-Lonely-Hearts\u20135.-Reading-Scheme.m4a\"][\/audio]\n<p>Reading Scheme<\/p>\n[audio m4a=\"https:\/\/www.northstarmusicllc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/09-Lonely-Hearts\u20136.-Advertisement.m4a\"][\/audio]\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n[audio m4a=\"https:\/\/www.northstarmusicllc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/10-Lonely-Hearts\u20137.-Giving-Up-Smoking.m4a\"][\/audio]\n<p>Giving Up Smoking<\/p>\n[audio m4a=\"https:\/\/www.northstarmusicllc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/11-Lonely-Hearts\u20138.-The-Reading.m4a\"][\/audio]\n<p>The Reading<\/p>\n[audio m4a=\"https:\/\/www.northstarmusicllc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/12-Lonely-Hearts\u20139.-The-Orange.m4a\"][\/audio]\n<p>The Orange<\/p>\n<p>Sara Williamson Kantor, soprano<br aria-hidden=\"true\" \/>Lawrence Weller, baritone<br aria-hidden=\"true\" \/>Claudia Chen, piano<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":3799,"template":"","meta":{"_crdt_document":""},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[28,65,69,25],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3789","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-baritone","7":"product_cat-david-evan-thomas","8":"product_cat-duets","9":"product_cat-soprano","11":"first","12":"instock","13":"purchasable","14":"product-type-variable"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northstarmusicllc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/3789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northstarmusicllc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northstarmusicllc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northstarmusicllc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northstarmusicllc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northstarmusicllc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=3789"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northstarmusicllc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=3789"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northstarmusicllc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=3789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}