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Summary:

It was commissioned by Carnegie Hall for the 2014 Ecstatic Music Festival, and first performed at Carnegie's Zankel Hall on February 22, 2014.The work is a distorted, wild, blasphemous take on the traditional Vespers prayer service, in which fragments of poems by Matthew Zapruder replace the customary sacred text.

Table of Contents:

• Vespers for a new dark age / Missy Mazzoli ; text compiled from poems by Matthew Zapruder
• A thousand tongues : Lorna Dune remix / Missy Mazzoli ; text by Stephen Crane.

Author/Creator:

Mazzoli, Missy , composer, instrumentalist

Contributors:

Zapruder, Matthew, 1967- , author

Crane, Stephen, 1871-1900 , author

Kotche, Glenn , instrumentalist

Dune, Lorna , arranger of music

Victoire (Musical group) , performer, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prf

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Sung in English.

Main Work:

Vocal music [of Mazzoli, M.] (Selections)

Included Works:

Vespers for a new dark age [by Mazzoli, M.]

Thousand tongues [by Mazzoli, M.] (arranged)

Other Related Resources:

Source record: Vespers for a new dark age [by Mazzoli, M.] (OCLC Number 905662319)

Subjects:

Vespers (Music)

Vocal trios with instrumental ensemble

Songs with instrumental ensemble

Electronic music

Remixes

Zapruder, Matthew, 1967- — Musical settings

Crane, Stephen, 1871-1900 — Musical settings

Zapruder, Matthew, 1967-

Crane, Stephen, 1871-1900

Genres:

Musical settings

Performers:

Victoire (Martha Cluver, Mellissa Hughes, soprano ; Olivia De Prato, violin ; Virginia Warnken Kelsey, alto ; "Lorna Dune" Krier, Missy Mazzoli, keyboards, electronics ; Eileen Mack, clarinet ; Eleonore Oppenheim, double bass) ; Glenn Kotche, percussion (1st work); Deidre Muro, voice (2nd work).

Performance Medium:

Soprano voice (2); alto voice; instrumental ensemble

General Notes:

The 1st work for 2 sopranos, alto, violin, 2 keyboards, clarinet, double bass, percussion, and electronics; the 2nd work a remix by Lorna Dune of Missy Mazzoli's A thousand tongues.
The 1st work reimagines the traditional vespers prayer service and replaces the customary sacred verses with poems by Matthew Zapruder that contend with themes like technology, God and more.
(2nd work) recorded Soft Landing Studio You Too Can Woo.
Description based on: Hard copy version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 audio file)

Audio Characteristics:

digital

Digital Characteristics:

audio file

Call Numbers:

Online Audio

Other Standard Numbers:

International Standard Recording Code: US7MN1500573
International Standard Recording Code: US7MN1500574
International Standard Recording Code: US7MN1500575
International Standard Recording Code: US7MN1500576
International Standard Recording Code: US7MN1500577
International Standard Recording Code: US7MN1500578
International Standard Recording Code: US7MN1500579
International Standard Recording Code: US7MN1500580
International Standard Recording Code: US7MN1500581
Publisher Number, New Amsterdam: NWAM062

OCLC Numbers:

934636213