Brandon, Jenni % Multitudinous Stars and Spring Waters - OB/SOPRANO

Multitudinous Stars and Spring Watersfor oboe and sopranoby Jenni Brandon (b. 1977) - American composer Multitudinous Stars and Spring Waters for soprano and oboe by Jenni Brandon combines a collection of poems by women poets from a vast period of Chinese history. Their poems make up the larger picture of love and waiting, sometimes with disappointment and grief, of admiration, of marriage and of eternal love. The whole work is a love song – telling that age-old story of the push and pull of emotions that only love can cause. Multitudinous Stars and Spring Waters represents a collection of  women poets from a vast period of Chinese history.  The poems in it come from the collection of poems “ Women Poets of China”.  This book, edited and translated by Kenneth Rexroth and Ling Chung, explores poetry from many centuries both attributed to and written by women poets.  Throughout the centuries Chinese women were not allowed to share their poetry. They were basically property of their husba