Tuesday, March 8, 2022

3 George Crumb Tropes, Op. 392

Op. 392 THREE GEORGE CRUMB TROPES
   (March 8, 2022) from
   THE DECAMERON: FIFTH DAY
   For Orchestra         
     Novel III.  Pietro Boccamazza runs away with Agnolella,
        and encounters a gang of robbers
        (Madrigals, Book II [1962]
            III. Cabalito Negro - Little Black Horse)
     Novel VII.  Pietro Teodoro, being enamoured of Violante,
        daughter of Messer Amerigo, his lord, gets her with child,
        and is sentenced to the gallows
          (Black Angels [1970]
               I-V, VII, X)
     Novel VIII.  Nastagio degli Onesti,
        loving a damsel of the Traversari family,
        by lavish expenditure gains not her love
          (Songs, Drones, and Refrains of Death [1968]
               III. Cancion de Jinete - Song of the Rider)


     Score:


 Performance:

          May 28, 2022
            San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra
            Lakeview Presbyterian Church
            San Francisco, CA