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Home / Compositions / Five Cabaret Songs

Five Cabaret Songs (1985)

10 minutes
for voice and variable ensemble

1. Chanson d'automne (Verlaine)
2. La cloche fêlée (Baudelaire)
3. Being beauteous (Rimbaud)
4. Encore un chapelet ( Anon. 13th cent.)
5. Colloque sentimental (Verlaine).

Voice, melody instrument (can be played by clarinet, soprano, alto or tenor saxophone, violin or any other instrument), harmony instrument (piano, organ, guitar, vibraphone or accordion, or any combination); score includes percussion suggestions

Commissioned by Mini Dekkers with funds from the Music Board of the Australia Council

First performance by Marjanne Kweksilber (soprano), Mini Dekkers Trio, Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1 March 1987

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Instrumentations: Vocal, Voice and ensemble

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