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My Twentieth Century

Composer: Bresnick, Martin

Yale Norfolk New Music Ensemble

Conductor: Pellicano, Julian

Libretto/Text Author: Andrews, Tom

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Catalogue Number: DAK012-03

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My Twentieth Century is a descendant of Arnold Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire - without the chanteuse and in a more vernacular musical and poetic idiom. According to our plan, I have integrated Tom's text within the musical architecture of the composition by having the performers occasionally leave their accustomed roles as musicians and speak the lines of the poem to us, and to each other, as if in a heightened conversation. Tom completed the poem My Twentieth Century' shortly before he died suddenly in July of 2001. My Twentieth Century is dedicated to his memory.

https://www.martinbresnick.com/programnotes/mytwentieth.htm