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Twice Through the Heart
Dramatic scena for mezzo-soprano and 16 players
Text by Jackie Kay
Product Details
Description
A woman has killed her husband with the kitchen knife ‘twice through the heart’ in the heat of the moment. He had abused her mentally and physically for many years. In court however, the woman does not talk about this, and she is given a long prison sentence. ‘I wanted to write a simple voice that was not poetic, literary or polemical. I wanted the voice to be so everyday it would be banal: the language to be flat and ordinary. I wanted to contrast the heightened drama of such domestic violence with plain, unpoetic speech. I was captivated with the idea that both the home and the prison were forms of incarceration for the battered wife. That there was no place she could be free. That the battered wife received a double sentence: the first from the husband and the second from the judge’. (Jackie Kay, ENO programme, 1997).
Orchestral Cast
1(afl).1(ca).2(bcl).0-1.1.1.0-perc(8crot, vib, mar, sus cym, 3gongs, tam-t, b.d, pedal b.d, ratchet, clav, whip)-hp.pno(cel)-str(1.0.2.2.1)
Content
I No Way Out
II Inside (part 1)
III Love
IV By the Sea
V Inside (part 2)
VI Four Walls
VII Interlude
VIII Landslide
IX China Cup
II Inside (part 1)
III Love
IV By the Sea
V Inside (part 2)
VI Four Walls
VII Interlude
VIII Landslide
IX China Cup
More Information
Title:
Twice Through the Heart
Dramatic scena for mezzo-soprano and 16 players
Text by Jackie Kay
Language:
English
Edition:
Performance material
Publisher/Label:
Schott Music
Year of composition:
1994 - 1996
Duration:
30 ′0 ′′
World Premiere:
June 13, 1997 · Aldeburgh (UK)
Snape Maltings Concert Hall
Sally Burgess, mezzo soprano · Conductor: Nicholas Kok · Orchestra of the English National Opera
Snape Maltings Concert Hall
Sally Burgess, mezzo soprano · Conductor: Nicholas Kok · Orchestra of the English National Opera
Commissioned work :
Commissioned by The Johm S. Cohen Foundation
Series:
Technical Details
Media Type:
Hire/performance material
Product number:
LSL 4107-01
Manufacturer:
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