I Hide Myself

I hide myself With a lily Go lovely Rose-Written early in Whitacre's career whilst at the University of Nevada in Las Vegas. Arranged for SATB choir includes a Piano line for rehearsal purposes.I Hide MyselfJust a simple song really. All of the musical suggestions come from a careful study of the poem a quiet passionate soul occasionally speaking a little bolder than the age will allow. She loves almost to the point of distraction and this mood mustprevail in the performance: shy and sullen her passion surging to the surface only to sink back into the silence that is herself.Go Lovely RoseThe piece is structured around the cyclical lifeof a rose and is connection throughout by the opening 'rose motif' a seed that begins on the tonic and grows in all directions before it blossoms dies and grows again. Each season is represented: spring begins the piece summerappears at bar 13 autumn at bar 26 winter at bar 39 with spring returning at bar 49. The form is based on the Fibonacci sequence (the pattern found in plant and animal cell divisions) - its fifty five bars are a perfectFibonacci number. The Golden Mean appears at bar 34 as all parts are reunited to complete the flower before its final blossom and inevitable cycle of death and rebirth.Each performance should be approachedwith a child-like innocence and naivety that allows us to marvel at the return of the rose each spring. The szforzandos throughout must be light and gentle.With A Lily In Your HandWater and Fire. If the performance of this piece connects these contrasting elemental ideas its success is guaranteed. Water: At bar 30 this ostinato should be fluid and gentle only interrupted at bar 32 asthe butterflies momentarily spring out of the texture; bars 35-38 the water should slowly transform back to fire. Bar 44 should be tiny bell-tones motivating the next nine bars another patient sensuous transformation back to

Giles Swayne wrote this piece to commemorate the life of his brother-in-law Nii Sackey Codjoe who came to England from Ghana as an illegal worker. Sackey's goal was to make money to give himself a better future in his home country but he was made redundant with the result that his life fell apart. He gambled and drank away all the money he had saved and eventually died of heart failure. Sackey's story is all too common but none the less tragic for that. He left no children and his warmth and laughter were blotted out by a world for which he was not adequately equipped leaving nothing behind. Nobody except a handful of kind Ghanaian church people came to hiscremation which was paid for by the hospital where he died.In the piece a simple 25-bar refrain is gradually transformed recurring four times. These four refrains are interspersed by four episodes which give a musical portrait of aspects of Sackey's life and character. After the fourth refrain comes the final section Valediction in which we hear his pulse (represented by flute horn and viola) falter and cease while the harp quietly plays the melody of a hymn which was a favourite of Sackey's:'Rock of ages cleft for me Let me hide myself in thee...'

Retrouvez une sélection de 60 chansons tirées des films musicaux les plus célèbres de la compagnie MGM. MGM est est une société américaine spécialisée dans la production et dans la distribution de films de cinéma et de programmes pour la télévision depuis 1924. Ici ce sont les partitions pour piano, voix et guitare (grilles d'accords). Inclus un historique de la société. / Variétés Internationales / Partition /