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The wildest and most open of his operas, New Year is an extraordinarily youthful conception for a composer in his mid-eighties, a work that spins his lyrical ecstasy and rhythmic vitality into a new world on the point of disintegration. Unlike its four predecessors, all of which had been written for the Royal Opera House, this one was composed for Houston Grand Opera, a relocation that encouraged Tippett to veer from opera to musical, even
rock musical, giving space to pop song, spoken dialogue, joke and, above all, dance—the communal movement of bodies that would, as in The Midsummer
Marriage but now within a much looser framework, with music say what words could not. Jo Ann and Donny—young woman and young
man, white and black, both orphans—cannot join the dance, isolated as they are inside their personal fears and fantasies. And the dance itself is imperilled by social unease in this city that is ‘Somewhere and Today’.
To it come visitors from ‘Nowhere and Tomorrow’: the captain (Regan), pilot (Pelegrin) and computer wizard (Merlin) of a space vessel—though these
science-fiction characters turn out to be ritual agents (and to have human problems of their own). Donny undergoes a magical transformation; Jo Ann, through love, gains the courage to leave the room in which she has been hiding.
(Paul Griffiths)
Orchestral Cast
3 (3pic).2.ca.1.bcl.3sax.1.cbn-4.2.3.1-perc (s.d., t.d., b.d., jazz kit, slit dr., 2 steel dr. (high/low), brake dr., 5 tom-toms, cym., sus.cym., hi-hat, hand cym. played with mallet/steel bar, 2w.bl., wh., large tri., large tam-tam, small tam-tam, c.b., xyl., vib., glock., tub.bells, claves, guiro)-hp.egtr.bgtr-str (4.4.4.4.2min) - electronic tape - sampler kybd
Cast
Jo Ann, a trainee children's doctor · lyric soprano - Donny, her young brother · light baritone - Nan, their foster mother · dramatic mezzo - Merlin, the computer wizard · dramatic baritone - Pelegrin, the space pilot · lyric tenor - Regan, their boss · dramatic soprano - The Presenter · microphoned male singer - Chorus of dancers and singers
More Information
Title:
New Year
Opera in 3 acts
Edition:
Piano reduction
Publisher/Label:
Schott Music Ltd., London
Year of composition:
1986 - 1988
Duration:
102 ′
Series:
Title:
New Year
Opera in 3 acts
Language:
English
Edition:
Piano reduction
Publisher/Label:
Schott Music Ltd., London
Year of composition:
1986 - 1988
Duration:
102 ′
Series:
Title:
New Year
Opera in 3 acts
Language:
English
Edition:
Piano reduction
Publisher/Label:
Schott Music Ltd., London
Year of composition:
1986 - 1988
Duration:
102 ′
Series:
Technical Details
Product number:
ED 12333
ISMN13:
979-0-2201-1536-3
Product number:
ED 12333
ISMN13:
979-0-2201-1536-3
Weight:
1,13 kg
Pages:
344
Format:
23.1cm x 30.3cm
Product number:
ED 12333 Q3655
ISMN13:
979-0-2201-1536-3
Pages:
343
File format:
(PDF / 30,56 MB)
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