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LRC099

13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird

Collective composition of 12 graduate students and D. Constantinides

Poetry: “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird” by Wallace Stevens

David Penri-Evans – Kenneth Benoit – John V. LoMonaco – Wayne Y. Chow – Aris Carastathis – Mikel LeDee – Mark Dugas – Ted Lashley – Joe Cosgrove – Phil Young – James Guthrie – John Metcalf – Dinos Constantinides

1987

0:26:00

Sop, 2(Fl), Bsn, Euph, Vln, Vla, StrBs

13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird resulted from a collaboration between the LSU School of Music and the LSU Art Department. Student composers and artists used the Wallace Stevens’ poem “13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird” as a theme. Dinos Constantinides conceived of the basic idea for purposes of unity. The composers used the “Soggeto cavato” technique, in which musical subjects are derived by “carving out” vowels from words.

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