componist
Jacques Bank (1943) studeert compositie aan het Sweelinck Conservatorium in Amsterdam bij Ton de Leeuw en Jos Kunst. Hij sluit deze studie af met de Prijs voor Compositie.
gerelateerde werken
Genre:
Vocaal
Subgenre:
Gemengd koor en instrumenten
Bezetting:
GK4 2vl vla vc
Speech : 2005 / Astrid Kruisselbrink
Genre:
Vocaal
Subgenre:
Zangstem solo
Bezetting:
6vocalists
Genre:
Vocaal
Subgenre:
Zangstem en instrument(en)
Bezetting:
sopr/ten fl pf
Chanson d'Automne : for soprano and ensemble / Robert Groslot; lyrics by Paul Verlaine
Genre:
Vocaal
Subgenre:
Zangstem en instrument(en)
Bezetting:
zang fl ob hp 2vn vla vc db
compositie
The end : seven songs for bass/baritone solo, 1992 / Jacques Bank
Overige auteurs:
Aubrey, John
(tekstdichter/librettist)
Barton, David
(tekstdichter/librettist)
Defoe, Daniel
(tekstdichter/librettist)
Bevat:
She leapt... / tekst v. J. Aubrey
Three years later...
A recluse...
The Russian general...
She accused her husband... / teksten uit The Independent
Nothing dies so neatly... / tekst v. D. Barton
A dreadful plague... / tekst v. D. Defoe
Toelichting:
Program note (English): "The end" consists of seven songs. The last song must be accompanied by one or more unspecified instruments. "The end" is about dying. The first song is based on a story by the 17th-century English author John Aubrey, in which a woman welcomes her lover in such a way that she is crushed to death. Stories about several bizarre ways of dying, taken from the English newspaper, The Independent, are told in songs 2, 3, 4 and 5. The sixth song is based on a text about the neat and controlled way insects die by the English artist David Barton, published in his 'drawing-book' "Sequences One". In the last song the singer tells the audience that, in spite of the 'gloomy' atmosphere of preceding songs, he is happy to be alive. This last song is based on the poem that concludes Daniel Defoe's "A journal on the Plague Year". - Jacques Bank