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John Corigliano - Elegy
John Corigliano - Elegy
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My “Elegy” is based on an incidental score I wrote for an off Broadway production of Wallace Grey’s “Helen” – an account of the aging Helen of Troy. The “Elegy” develops ideas which originally accompanied the bittersweet love scene between Helen (age 40) and Telemachus (age 20) The brief work, set at a single slow tempo, begins quickly with a key passage for paired flutes, builds during its course to two double forte climaxes for full orchestra, and finally subsides for a pianissimo close for strings and woodwinds. Stylistically, as the dedication to Samuel Barber might suggest, the work identifies itself with neo-romantic American style, typified in a diversity of works by Barber himself, Walter Piston, or William Schuman.
– John Corigliano
https://www.johncorigliano.com/works/elegy-1965
John Corigliano continues to add to one of the richest, most unusual, and most widely celebrated bodies of work any composer has created over the last forty years. Corigliano's scores, now numbering over one hundred, have won the Pulitzer Prize, the Grawemeyer Award, five Grammy Awards, an Academy Award, and have been performed and recorded by many of the most prominent orchestras, soloists, and chamber musicians in the world. Attentive listening to this music reveals an unconfined imagination, one which has taken traditional notions like "symphony" or "concerto" and redefined them in a uniquely transparent idiom forged as much from the post-war European avant-garde as from his American forebears.
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