Together, Guth and Switzer founded Sparks & Wiry Cries, a global platform dedicated to art song, spanning the publication, live performance, and commissioning of new works, in 2009.Ī Note on BindingTo adhere to recommendations by the Music Library Association, and to aid in library shelving, the NewMusicShelf Anthologies are perfect bound books. Both have won numerous prizes and awards, and are prolific teachers: Guth is on the faculty of Ithaca College and SongFest, while Switzer is on the music faculty at Bard College and the Graduate Vocal Arts Program of the Bard College-Conservatory of Music. John’s Smith Square, New York’s Lincoln Center, and the Leeds Lieder Festival. Switzer and Guth are both accomplished artists on their own Switzer has performed at New York’s Weill Hall (Carnegie), the Kennedy Center, the Bard Music Festival, and the Spoleto Festival (Charleston, SC), among many other venues while Guth has appeared regularly at London’s Wigmore Hall, St. Guth and Switzer share a deep connection to the works of living composers: they have premiered dozens of new compositions, including works by Andrew Staniland, Tom Cipullo, and Juliana Hall, who have written new works for the duo. Soprano Martha Guth and pianist Erika Switzer have been leading figures in the world of art song for over 20 years, delivering recitals around the world in places such as South Africa, Germany, Spain, France, England, and across North America. Songs in this volume ComposerĪt this time I could not breathe like the othersĬo-written by Jordan Bowman, Madelein Bowman, and Nathan Scalise Many of them were prize winners, though not all.
The songbook is a selection of sixteen of the most promising songs premiered since its inception. Cash prizes are awarded.įirst premiered in NYC in 2015, the songSLAM has now been or will be presented in four countries and 10 different cities around the globe: NYC, Toronto, Vancouver, London, Ljubljana, Ann Arbor, Cincinnati, Chicago, Minneapolis, and Buffalo, with even more growth on the horizon. During the competition itself, carried out in the poetry-slam tradition, audience members vote on their favorite performances.
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With an eye to the democratic process and equality of access, sign-up is first come, first served, and the registration fee is nominal. The Sparks & Wiry Cries NYC songSLAM is a unique competition for emerging composer/performer teams to premiere new art song. Creation and co-production of the songSLAM competition for emerging composers, poets and performers around the world.Presentation of the songSLAM Festival in NYC.
The forthright Wolcum Yole!, the deliciously lyrical There is no Rose, the swinging Balulalow, the fiery and dramatic This little Babe all contributeĬomposer: Benjamin Britten Voicing: SATB | Sheet Music | $1.Sparks & Wiry Cries promotes the advancement and preservation of art song by providing opportunities to its creators and performers. Variety is the key word here as all the carols have such individual identities. The carols are for three-part children's voices (though, of course they can be sung by female adults as well) and they form a two-part work around a central Interlude for harp which is based on the plainsong from the Procession. The final Alleluia can be repeated as many times as necessary to get the singers to and from their destination. These movements can also be accompanied but strictly only if the voices do not process. It is a brilliantly conceived and dramatic concert work which sees the voices process to their places singing unaccompanied plainsong and, at the end, processing out again to the same chant. Text: Robert Southwell Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes Difficulty level: 3 The Ceremony of Carols is one of Britten's best-known and most-performed works. Benjamin Britten : In Freezing Winter Night