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Table of Contents:

• I. Simon and the falcon
• II. Nora
• III. The murder and the kiss
• IV. Sunniva
• V. Escape.

Author/Creator:

Teirstein, Andy , composer

Contributors:

Dinesen, Isak, 1885-1962 , author

New York University , commissioning body

Hudson Valley Festival of the Arts , commissioning body

Cassatt String Quartet , honouree, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/hnr

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Staff notation.

Main Work:

Secrets of the north: for string quartet and nyckelharpa with narrator and two dancers [by Teirstein, A.]

Included Works:

Secrets of the north [by Teirstein, A.]

Subjects:

Music theater — Scores

Monologues with music (String ensemble) — Scores

Mixed media (Music)

Genres:

Music theater

Monologues (Music)

Chamber music

Scores

Performance Medium:

8 performers: speaker; dancer (2); keyed fiddle; violin (2); viola; cello

General Notes:

To be narrated by an actor, and danced by two teen dancers, a young man and young woman.
Commissioned by New York University and The Hudson Valley Festival of the Arts.
Premiered 2016 at the Hudson Valley Festival of the Arts by the Cassatt String Quartet, David Lutken (actor), Alena Brocker (dancer), Max Teirstein (dancer), and the composer (nyckelharpa and concertina (optional)).
English text printed following score.
The music was inspired by traditional Swedish folk music.
With performance notes in English.

Physical Description:

1 score (34, 7 pages) ; 31 cm

Call Numbers:

M1500.T45 S4 2023

Other Standard Numbers:

Publisher Number, Animal Stone Productions: 29170030

OCLC Numbers:

1414216139