A Sunbeam’s Architecture for tenor and chamber orchestra

Year
2010
Duration
11'
Category
Voice and Ensemble

Instrumentation: 1.1.2(II=bcl).1-0.0.1.0-perc(2):I=marimba/tam-t/2tom-t/3susp.cym/highSD/guiro; II=BD/log dr/3SD(lo, med, hi)/2tpl.bl/vib-pft-strings(min:2.2.2.2.2)
Dedication: Dedicated to my son David and Carol Parks
Buy Score: Hendon Music (Boosey & Hawkes)
Manuscripts: Paul Sacher Stiftung
Text Author: e.e. cummings (English)
Songs: See below

	Title	Instrumentation
1.	your little voice	ten, perc(2), pft, str
2.	no man	tutti
3.	my sweet old etcetera	tutti
4.	love	tutti
5.	it's jolly odd	ten, perc(2)
6.	somewhere	tutti

Premiere: Dec 8, 2011/ Nicholas Phan, tenor / Various Artists / Ryan McAdams/ 92nd Street Y, New York, NY

News

From 100 to 103: The Wisdom of Elliott Carter

March 24, 2016

The choice and ordering of these poems by E.E. Cummings was made to show the poet in a period when the telephone was still a novelty and the First World War (1914-1919) was raging. It begins with a personal expression, then goes to his calling…poetry (A Sunbeam’s Architecture), that is interrupted by the war and ends returning to his personal life. It was composed in the spring of 2010 and is dedicated to my son David and Carol Parks.

– Elliott Carter

Recordings (1)

Elliott Carter: 103rd Birthday Concert
NMC Recordings (2014)
Rolf Schulte, violin | Fred Sherry, cello | Richard O'Neill, viola | Virgil Blackwell, bass clarinet | Bridget Kibbey, harp | Marie Tachouet, flute | Mike Truesdell, marimba (+8)