• Matthew Aucoin
  • The No One's Rose (2021)

  • Associated Music Publishers Inc (World)

Commissioned by Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Chorale and Stanford Live, with the generous support of the Stanford Live Commissions and Programming Fund, The Koret Foundation, and The Ross E. Armstrong and Jonas (Jay) K. Stern Jews & Music Fund.


Unavailable for performance.

  • S,A,Ct,T,B + 1.2+obdcac.0.1(cbn)/timp(bdr).perc/pf/str
  • Soprano, Alto, Countertenor, Tenor, Bass
  • 43 min
  • Paul Celan, Johann Mayrhofer, Théophile Gautier, Jorie Graham
  • English, French, German

Programme Note

Movements
1. Chorale
2. Es war Erde in ihnen…
3. Blooming For No One
4. Abschied
5. Le spectre de la rose
6. Shaker Dance
7. Deep Water Trawling
8. It’s all different from what you think…

Scores

Perusal

Reviews

In “Rose’s” shape-shifting way, the melody took on different guises, opening new possibilities, disconnects and congruences suggesting “infinite love,” as one line had it, “in finite life.”

Steven Winn, San Francisco Chronicle
26th August 2021