The Raven

Monodrama for mezzo-soprano and 12 players

based on "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe

mezzo-soprano and 12 players

Product number: LSJ 4632-01

Edition: Performance material

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When I read The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe, it reminded me of the Japanese Noh play. A view of the world in the Noh is not anthropocentric. Some of the main characters in the Noh are animals and plants, and some are unearthly spirits. Poe describes the process of the collapse of the modern rational world, as a consequence of an invasion of the world by a weird animal ‘raven’ which lives in the other world. I considered this poem as a story of Noh and expressed it in the form of monodrama with mezzo-soprano and ensemble. Toshio Hosokawa

Orchestral Cast

afl(pic.fl.bfl).bcl(cl).tsax(asax)-tpt.tbn-perc(vib, 3tri, cym.ant, tam-t, 4bng, b.d, 4Jap.wind bells[Furin], 4rins on timp, whip)-pno-str(1.1.1.1.1)

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Title:

The Raven

Monodrama for mezzo-soprano and 12 players

based on "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe

Language:

English

Edition:

Performance material

Publisher/Label:

Schott Music Co. Ltd., Tokyo

Year of composition:

2011 - 2012

Duration:

45 ′

World Premiere:

March 17, 2012 · Bruxelles (B)
La Raffinerie
Ars Musica 2012
Charlotte Hellekant, mezzo-soprano · Conductor: Toshio Hosokawa · United Instruments of Lucilin

(concert)

Commissioned work :

Commissioned by the United Instruments of Lucilin (Luxembourg)