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
Thirteen 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 piece was premiered on July 13, 1986, at the celebration of the Foster Hall Gallery opening at LSU.
The piece was composed collectively by thirteen LSU composers from the composition class of Dinos Constantinides. The composers used the “Soggeto cavato” technique, in which musical subjects are derived by “carving out” vowels from words. The following composers participated: 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, and Dinos Constantinides.
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