stanley grill TWO SAD SONGS

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1 stanley grill TWO SAD SONGS musial settings o oems y W Yeats or sorano string orhestra When you are sad The Cloak, The oat, and the Shoes Coyright 2002 (rev 200) Stanley Grill All rights reserved the ords rom W YEATS are set to musi y ermission o A Watt Ltd on ehal o Mihael Yeats

2 MUSIC Y STAN GRILL VOCAL MUSIC The Sno egins (WC Williams) 1975 sorano, iano min Earth and Sea (Eskimo texts) 1975 sorano, iano min reludes (TS Eliot) 1978 sorano, violin, ello 10 min Songs (W Yeats) 198 sorano, iano 15 min To a Child (W Yeats) 1987 sorano, string quartet 20 min Crazy Jane Sings (W Yeats) 1999 sorano, l, vn, va, v, n 25 min Vignettes/loers (WC Williams) 2002 SAT, ello 18 min Love oems (WC Williams) 200 SSAA 10 min Vignettes/Trees (WC Williams) voies, 2 ellos 15 min Thinking o You (John MaKenzie) 2005 sorano, v, har 7 min Ariettas ithout ords 2005 sorano, v, har 9 min Setate (erdinando Russo) 2005 SSATT min In Their light (Mark Doty) 200 sorano, mezzo sorano, vn, v min Rilke Songs 2009 sorano, va d'amore, v 15 min Songs to oems y Hart Crane 2010 tenor, iano 12 min Sonnets to Orheus (Rilke) 2012 tenor, iano 5 min MUSIC OR STRINGS ALONE Contrauntal iees 198 string quartet 20 min or Laura 1987 string quartet 25 min As Easy as 1,2, 1987 string trio 10 min The ekoning Stars 2001 string quartet 1 min Imaginary Danes 2001 violin solo 18 min Short Stories 200 vn, va, v, d 18 min assion (a love duet) 200 va, v 9 min avanne (or a orld ithout ar) 2005 string orhestra 8 min Meditations or String Orhestra 200 string orhestra 8 min Amerian Landsaes 2007 string quartet 2 min Motet or String Orhestra 2008 string orhestra 7 min Estasy 2009 viola solo 9 min Transormations 2009 viola da gama solo 12 min Sonatine 2010 violins 9 min CHAMER MUSIC Three or Three 1992 vn, v, n 1 min Civil War Songs 1992 va, n 18 min Take ive vns, va, v, n 25 min Serenade 1999 l, vn, va, v 11 min Distant Musi 2000 l, vn/va, v, n 20 min Driven y the Wind 2001 l, v, n 25 min Nonet (or Ne York) 2002 l, o, l, hn, n, 2vns, va, v 5 min A Little Seet 200 l, v 10 min On the edge o slee dreaming 200 hn, v, har 1 min 5 astoral Senes 200 o, n, vn, va, v 0 min I as dreaming o the sea 200 vn (or l), v, n 7 min Little Tales o Mirth Woe 200 vn (or l), v, n min An Ode to the ossiility o eae 2005 l, vn, v 15 min Elements 200 l, o, l, hn, n 11 min Motet or rass Instruments tr, hn, tr, tu 7 min ORCHESTRAL MUSIC Aalahian Songs 1988 hamer orhestra 25 min Morning Musi 2001 l, string orhestra 22 min To Sad Songs (W Yeats) 2002 sorano, string orhestra 15 min Invisile allet 200 strings diverse instruments min luto 2005 orhestra 15 min Ohelia Songs (Shakeseare) 2005 sorano, har, string orhestra 12 min Love's Little leasures 2008 sorano, string orhestra 15 min The our Elements 2009 va, string orhestra 22 min Mystial Songs 2009 sorano, va, string orhestra 18 min

3 There is not muh to say aout the musi o To Sad Songs the musi ill seak or itsel ut o the oetry, it is imortant to say that W Yeats is, to my ear, y ar the most musial o oets ever to rite in the English language English is not naturally a musial language, ut someho, henever I read Yeats, the rhythms and sounds o the ords alays seem to me to all or musi, and I have set many o his oems The oems seemed to e omanion oems, exressing in dierent ords a similar sentiment, although Yeats did not intend them as suh When you are Sad as ulished in 1892 in The Countess Kathleen and rious Legends and Lyris and The Cloak, the oat, and the Shoes as inluded in Yeats irst ulished ork, the 1889 Crossays When you are Sad When you are sad, The mother o the stars ees too, And all her starlight is ith sorro mad, And tears o ire all gently in the de When you are sad, The mother o the ind mourns too, And her old ind that no mirth ever had, Wanders and ails eore my heart most true When you are sad, The mother o the ave sighs too, And her dim ave ids man e no more glad, And then the hole orld s troule ees ith you The Cloak, the oat, and the Shoes What do you make so air and right I make the loak o Sorro: O lovely to see in all men s sight Shall e the loak o Sorro, In all men s sight What do you uild ith sails or light I uild a oat or Sorro: O sit on the seas all day and night Saileth the rover Sorro, All day and night What do you eave ith ool so hite I eave the shoes o Sorro: Soundless shall e the ootall light In all men s ears o Sorro, Sudden and light The ords rom W Yeats are set to musi y ermission o A Watt Ltd on ehal o Mihael Yeats

4 When you are sad musi y Stanley Grill ords y W Yeats Violin 1 Violin 2 Viola Violonello Douleass Adagio solo solo V # stan grill all rights reserved

5 8 # # # # # # # # V # # # # # # # # # # 12 # # # V # # # # # 2

6 V tutti 1 tutti # # # # # # # # # # # ƒ # # # ƒ ƒ # ƒ # ƒ V # 20 # # # # # # ## # # # # # # # # # # #, solo # # solo # # # # # #

7 2 When you are sad, J The mo - ther o the V 2 # tutti tutti 28 stars ees too, And all her star - light is V 28 J j

8 J ith sor - ro mad, And tears o i - re all V 7 gen - tly in the de 7 J V 7 J aro 5

9 2 When you are sad, J The mo - ther o the V 2 2 aro 7 ind mourns too, And her old ind that no mirth e - 7 J j V 7

10 52 J J ver had Wan - ders and ails e - V n 57 # # J # # ore my heart most true 57 # # # # # n n # aro V 57 # # # # # 7

11 2 When you are sad, V 2 2 j j tutti aro > 8 J The mo - ther o the ave sighs too, And her dim ave ids no man e 8 J J V 8

12 7 J no more glad, And then the hole orld's trou - le ees ith 7 J J J V egin 2nd mvt ithout ause 81 you 81 V 9

13 The Cloak, the oat and the Shoes Violin 1 Violin 2 1 Andante Viola Violonello Douleass J J J V 10 J J j J J J V j stan grill all rights reserved

14 15 J j V 19 J V 2 J j J J aro J j j j j V J 11

15 V 27 J J J V 2 7 J J J # j # V 12 n n # #

16 V 2 n 7 æ æ æ tremolando æ æ æ æ n æ æ æ æ æ æ V j j n V 5 æ æ æ æ æ æ æ æ æ æ æ æ æ æ Allegro (q=h) æ æ æ æ æ æ 1 æ n æ n aro aro

17 V 59 n solo 2 2 rit V tutti div aro J 7 2 aster (h = h) 'What do you make so air and n right' 'I V aro 1

18 77 make the loak o Sor - ro Oh 77 V n n 81 love - ly to see in all men's sight Shall 81 n V 15

19 85 n e the loak o Sor - ro in 85 V 89 a temo (h=h) all men's sight' 89 # a temo (h=h) V 1

20 9 9 V solo tutti aro V rit rit aster (h = h) 'What do you uild ith sails or 17

21 10 light' 'I uild a oat or Sor - ro 10 V O sit on the seas all day and night V 18

22 112 Sail - eth the ro ver Sor - ro 112 V 11 a temo (h=h) 11 all day and night" a temo (h=h) V 19

23 V 121 n n n div solo V 127 tutti tutti 20

24 1 2 rit a temo (h=h) 'What do you eave ith V 1 aro rit > div a temo (h=h) > 18 n ool 18 so hite' 'I eave the shoes o Sor - ro n V > > > 21

25 1 1 O sound - less shall e the oot - all light In n V > > 18 n 18 all men's ears o Sor - ro V > > div > 22

26 V 152 aster (h = h) > 152 Sud - den and ß ß light' > ß ß n > ß ß div div div div ƒ ƒ aro aro V 15 tutti ƒ n 2

27 11 V aro 1 V n U 2

28 A e ords aout (and y) the omoser Stan Grill as raised in the ronx, studied at the ronx House Shool o Musi, and later graduated rom the Manhattan Shool o Musi ith undergrad and graduate degrees in musi theory He studied iano ith Roert Hels and Leon Kushner and omosition ith Ursula Mamlok and Joseh rostako Major orks inlude musi or string orhestra and voie, string orhestra and larinet, a nonet or inds and strings, and several song yles or mixed voies and hamer ensemle erormanes have een rodued y the omoser, as ell as resented y the Comosers Guild o Ne Jersey, the St aul s Churh estival o the Arts, the Leonia Chamer layers, the Ne York Comosers Cirle, the Northern Ne Jersey Camerata, the ronx Arts Ensemle and the Duo + Ensemle During the seasons, he as omoser in residene o One World Symhony, a Ne York City ased orhestra One World Symhony has remiered several major orks, inluding Invisile allet or orhestra, To Sad Songs setting oems y W Yeats or sorano string orhestra, and a yle o songs or to ellos and to mezzo soranos setting oems y the Ne Jersey oet William Carlos Williams In 200, One World ommissioned three orks a setting o the Ohelia songs rom Shakeseare s Hamlet or sorano, har and string orhestra, an orhestral ork, "luto," or a rogram eaturing Holst s The lanets, and a setting o oetry or a onert honoring those ho lost their lives on 9/11 Reent orks inlude "The our Elements" or viola and string orhestra ommissioned y violist rett Deuner and "Mystial Songs" or sorano, viola and string orhestra ommissioned y the Universidad Tenia artiular de Loja In 2009, an entire rogram o musi y Stan Grill as erormed in Tokyo y the Duo + Ensemle He urrently orks in hiladelia, and lives haily in Ne Jersey ith his ie, ats and iano As I see it, as muh as e strive to ind reason and urose in our having een orn into this amazing, mysterious and ae-insiring universe, that attemt is largely utile It is hoever, the est art o our nature that oliges us to make the attemt, though the most e an hoe or is to gain some small degree o understanding o the orld around us, and, more imortantly, o ourselves To ahieve this, e eah aroah the rolem in our on ay, uniquely shaed y our ultural akground, innate talents and ailities, eduation and so on or some, siene may e the indo through hih they est ereive and interret the orld, or others, religion or those to hom the orld seems to exress itsel most learly and eautiully through sound, musi is the voie that seaks to us and through hih e, in turn, est exress ourselves No, I an rite notes that ill make retty musi eause I ve een trained to do so ut the est o my musi has arrived, rather inexlialy, as art o a ersonal eort to understand the orld and mysel It is, in a ay, an at o translation The orld says something, I try to understand it, and then translate it into musial language The artiular musial language hih I seak, is, o ourse, a rodut o my onservatory training and ersonal musial tastes, ut hoeully, the outome, imeret a translation as it may e, ill onvey to others something o its original intent Stan's musi is melodi, modal, ontrauntal, haraterized y extended, intereaving lines His musial inluenes san the enturies, and inlude Mahaut, Josquin, alestrina, Monteverdi, Lassus, ritten, Ives, ughn Williams and Shostakovih To main themes ermeate many o the iees - musi intended to inluene the minds and hearts o those ho hear it in suh a ay as to enourage thoughts aout the ossiility o orld eae - and musi omosed in an attemt to translate something aout the nature o the hysial orld Comlete sores are availale in the Amerian Musi Center's on-line lirary lease go to Stan's e age at Amerian Musi Center

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