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Jordan Nelson The Snow I Hated, from Scenes and Weavings (2012) for SSAATTBB a cappella choir
. 嫌れた雪も一度に消へにけり kirawareta yuki mo ichi do ni kie ni keri by Kobayashi Issa the snow I hated all at once has melted away translation by David G. Lanoue
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The Snow I Hated, from Scenes and Weavings (2012) for SSAATTBB a cappella choir
Text:
. 嫌れた雪も一度に消へにけり kirawareta yuki mo ichi do ni kie ni keri by Kobayashi Issa the snow I hated all at once has melted away translation by David G. Lanoue Haiku of Kobayashi Issa, http://haikuguy.com/issa/ translation set with permission of Mr. Lanoue
Program Note: Scenes and Weavings is a set of short pieces for a cappella mixed choir. The work is based on translations by David G. Lanoue of poems by Japanese haiku master Kobayashi Issa. In exploring Issa’s texts, I was struck by the powerful dramatic progression that I found within each the works that I chose to set, and I sought to capture this sense of drama in my settings of Issa’s ‘scenes’. Scenes and Weavings was written in the Fall and Winter of 2011-2012 in Los Angeles, CA. ‘The Snow I Hated’, the fourth and final piece in the set, was premiered by the 2011-2012 USC Thornton Chamber Singers, led by Jo-Michael Scheibe, on April 26, 2012, as part of their program ‘American Voices’ presented at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA.
Approximate duration: 3 - 4 minutes
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Scenes and Weavings
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