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Home / Compositions / Comeclose and Sleepnow: six Liverpool love songs

Comeclose and Sleepnow: six Liverpool love songs (2016)

27 minutes
for singer and 14 instruments

Text: poems by Adrian Henri, Brian Patten and Roger McGough

  1. Evening Song (Henri) - 2. Her Song (Patten) - 3. Comeclose and Sleepnow (McGough) - 4. Dial a Poem (Henri) - 5. Sometimes It Happens (Patten) - 6. Aubade (Henri)

flute (= piccolo), clarinet in B flat, bass clarinet, alto sax, 2 trumpets, 2 trombones, vibes, drum kit, piano, electric guitar, violin, double bass

Commissioned by the Monash Art Ensemble

First performance by Gian Slater, Monash Art Ensemble directed by Paul Grabowsky (piano), Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music, Monash University, Melbourne, 13 October 2017

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Comeclose and Sleepnow: six Liverpool love songs was a finalist in the 2018 AMC & APRA AMCOS Art Music Awards in the category ‘Vocal/Choral Work of the Year’.

The judging panel commented:

This unusual and striking work contains clear markers of the composer’s aesthetic in a jazz idiom. Although the work was clearly – and expertly – written for a particular voice, the flexibility in the vocal writing will allow performance by other singers. The text is foregrounded in a successful marriage of words and music.

> A recording of this work by the Monash Art Ensemble is available via Bandcamp.

Reviews

Andrew Ford sets assorted poems in Comeclose and Sleepnow: Six Liverpool Love Songs, with Slater's Ariel-like voice casting a spell of a different sort: the music exquisitely orchestrated, the dissonances acting as thorns that unexpectedly snag the emotions.

John Shand, Sydney Morning Herald

Instrumentations: Vocal, Voice and ensemble

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