Six Fragments of Gertrude Stein for soprano and ensemble - Digital (Not Printable)

for soprano, soprano saxophone, piano, accordion, and cello. Arranged and elaborated by the composer in 2022.Fragments1. When I Sleep2. What Do I See3. A Very Valentine4. Why Do You Feel Differently5. A Clock in the Eye6. He Likes Composer noteIt was a fun and pleasurable effort to go back and revisit what is essentially my Opus 1, Six Fragments of Gertrude Stein for flute and soprano from 43 years ago (1979). It’s a work I’d always been fond of, as one of my oldest “musical children,” and to look at the musical languages in it again while changing the instrumentation to soprano saxophone, cello, accordion, and piano for Wein Modern and my longtime friend René Staar. Just a few years before I wrote the original, I was studying the voice-leading of Hindemith and 12-tone exercises of Krenek. These seem to have rubbed off a bit. This arrangement fit this work like a glove, and allowed me to suggest, in the largest movement, a kind of highly controlled hysteria through a 1950’s baby-Darmst