This is a heartfelt cycle of songs by Ricky Ian Gordon set the poetry of three important American poets, Jane Kenyon, Jean Valentine and Marie Howe. After a major personal loss, Gordon turned to the poetry of these women who speak of loss and death in a way that he found particularly consoling. The songs are beautifully written for a medium voice with Gordon s usual care. A dissonant and colorful keyboard part is a great enhancement to the generally reflective tone of the music. Gordon s moving setting of the late Jane Kenyon s heartbreaking Let Evening Come is destined to be a recital classic. Late Afternoon was commissioned by Tisch Center of the Arts at the 92nd Street Y and was made possible with funds provided by the Mary Flagler Charitable Trust.

VF15 - Late Afternoon: Six Songs for Mezzo Soprano

Ricky Ian Gordon

Arts & Photography

Carl Fischer Music Publisher

VF11 - Songs of Our Time - 14 Songs Set to Poems

Music

Complete score for vocal, clarinet and piano.

Orpheus and Euridice

Carl Fischer

Composer Ricky Ian Gordon has given us another masterpiece in the form of eleven songs written for soprano voice with piano: Too Few the Mornings Be, based on the poetry of Emily Dickinson. Written specially for the great Renee Fleming, this collection contains a personal note from Fleming herself, praising the beauty and freedom of the songs within, saying I love how you write for the voice; the vocal line moves freely throughout the whole range. This simple, elegant collection is truly a gift to soprano soloists. For the advanced singer.

VF17 - Too Few the Mornings Be

The Grapes of Wrath - An Opera in 3 Acts

john-steinbeck

Michael Korie

Carl Fischer Music

Gordon: Without Music

Theodore Presser Company

5 Songs for High Voice and Orchestra on poems by e.e. cummingsA vibrant song cycle for high voice and orchestra, now published in piano reduction, inspired by the sparkling and playful poetry by e.e. cummings and set to music by the renowned Ricky Ian Gordon, composer of critically-acclaimed opera The Grapes of Wrath and many other works. Dur.: 21 Orchestral score and parts are available on rental.

and flowers pick themselves

Co-commissioned by the Virginia Arts Festival, Virginia Opera, the Modlin Center for the Arts at the University of Richmond, and Texas Performing Arts at the University of Texas at Austin, Rapahannock County pairs the outstanding and celebrated talents of composer Ricky Ian Gordon and librettist Mark Campbell. Rappahannock County is a theatrical song cycle that captures key emotional, sociological, and historical moments in the Civil War. Much of the text was inspired by actual events and drawn from diaries, letters, and other accounts. The narrative follows the lines of history, from secession in 1861 to defeat in 1865, and is in five parts. Although the story is centered geographically in Virginia, its themes are universal to the Civil War. It is described as such by Wes Blomster of Opera Today: The piece has the sense of a lens closing in on a spectrum of individuals and their feelings around slavery and morality in a profound and poignant way... The acclaim accorded Rappahannock County by the 2,200 people who packed Norfolks Harrison Opera House for the premiere made clear that Gordon and Campbell had achieved their goal.

Rappahannock County

Theodore Presser

Based on Jean-Claude van Itallie's play after the Buddhist teachings of the same name, The Tibetan Book of The Dead leads us through the stages we experience after death and our transition into the next life. It is at once a ritual, an oratorio in 17 set numbers, a requiem, a warning, and a theatrically-staged wake. The 8 characters include a baritone ("The Reader" leading the journey towards death, enlightenment, or rebirth), a soprano (first as "The Dying" and then as "The Dead") and another soprano, two mezzos, two tenors, and a bass, who play the various energies, demons, temptations, memories, and deities.

Gordon: The Tibetan Book of the Dead

Theodore Presser Co.

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