BOLD BEAUTY
Bold Beauty is an album of art songs composed by Juliana Hall, performed by Molly Fillmore, soprano, and Elvia Puccinelli, piano.
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There are four song cycles on the album: Cameos (texts by Molly Fillmore), Letters from Edna (texts by Edna St. Vincent Millay), Syllables of Velvet, Sentences of Plush (texts by Emily Dickinson), and Theme in Yellow (texts by Robert Frost, Amy Lowell, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Carl Sandburg).
About the Songs
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Bold Beauty is a collection of four song cycles by the exquisite American composer, Juliana Hall. A recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship for composition, Juliana has been hailed as "one of our country's most able and prolific art song composers, with more than 60 song cycles and works of vocal chamber music to her credit.
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Letters from Edna was composed by Juliana Hall in 1993, and the texts are from eight letters sent by the American poet Edna St. Vincent Millay to members of Edna’s family, friends, and business associates.
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Composed in 1989, Syllables of Velvet, Sentences of Plush is set to letters written by one of the greatest American literary voices, Emily Dickinson. One finds in her letters the same direct, courageous, imaginative and unique voice one hears in her poems.
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Theme in Yellow, composed in 1990, consists of songs to poems by Amy Lowell, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Carl Sandburg and describes various impressions of autumn. The two songs we present to you now are both to texts by American poet Carl Sandburg. The first is Theme in Yellow, about that wonderful seasonal orange squash and gourd we know as pumpkins, and then Haze Gold, which beautifully describes the colors and light effects of autumn trees, leaves, and sunlight.
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