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- John Harbison
Mirabai Songs (1982)
- Associated Music Publishers Inc (World)
- afl, bcl, perc, hp, vn, va, vc, db
- pf
- Soprano [=Mezzo soprano]
- 18 min
- Mirabai, tran. by Robert Bly
- English
- 11th April 2025, Gusman Concert Hall, Coral Gables, FL, United States of America
Programme Note
Composer Note:
Mirabai's ecstatic religious poetry was written in 16th-century India. When she was 27, her husband was killed in a war. Mirabai refused to die on her husband's funeral pyre, as was the custom. Instead, she left her family compound, wrote her poems to Krishna, the Dark One, and sang and danced them in the streets.
— John Harbison
Mirabai's ecstatic religious poetry was written in 16th-century India. When she was 27, her husband was killed in a war. Mirabai refused to die on her husband's funeral pyre, as was the custom. Instead, she left her family compound, wrote her poems to Krishna, the Dark One, and sang and danced them in the streets.
— John Harbison
Media
Mirabai Songs: I. It's True, I Went to the Market
Mirabai Songs: II. All I Was Doing Was Breathe
Mirabai Songs: III. Why Mira Can't Go Back to Her Old House
Mirabai Songs: IV. Where Did You Go?
Mirabai Songs: V. Clouds
Mirabai Songs: VI. Don't Go, Don't Go
Scores
Discography
- LabelElektra/Nonesuch
- Catalogue NumberElektra/Nonesuch 9 79187-2
- ConductorDavid Zinman
- EnsembleOrchestra of St. Luke's
- SoloistDawn Upshaw (Soprano)
- LabelTDK
- Catalogue NumberVTDU
- SoloistGilbert Kalish (Piano), Dawn Upshaw (Soprano)
Music of John Harbison
- LabelBridge Records
- Catalogue NumberCD 9200
- SoloistGeorgine Resick, soprano; Warren Jones, piano
- LabelBmop/Sound
- Catalogue Number1010
- ConductorGil Rose
- EnsembleBoston Modern Orchestra Project
- SoloistJanna Baty (Mezzo Soprano)
