"Who Has Seen the Wind" [Allan Blank]

"Who Has Seen the Wind" [Allan Blank]

Part of: "Four Poems: for soprano, flute, clarinet in A, bassoon"

Blank, Allan; music (American, 1925-2013)

Rossetti, Christina Georgina; text (English, 1830-1894)

2010 [composition] [copyright]; 2019 [publication]

New York : American Composers Alliances

genre: song|song cycle

solo: soprano

instrumentation: flute|clarinet|bassoon

origin: United States

male composer

English

Rossetti poem(s): "'Who has seen the wind?'"

Place in the larger work: The first song of four in the song cycle called "Four Poems" which includes 1. "Who Has Seen the Wind" (Christina Rossetti); 2. "A Noiseless Patient Spider" (Walt Whitman); 3. "Little Birds of the Night" (Stephen Crane); 4. "Beautiful Soup, So Rich and Green" (Lewis Carroll).

Dedication: "to the Third Wheel" [trio composed of Karin Kantenwein Fabiero, flute, Dr. Rebecca Rivera, bassoon, Laura Stoutenborough, clarinet]

Format 1: musical score

46 pages; complete song cycle performance time 12 minutes

Other data reference(s): Record for "Four poems : for soprano, flute, clarinet in A, bassoon (2010)." WorldCat, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1129195803. Accessed 8 Sep. 2020.
Record for "Four Poems for Soprano, Flute, Clarinet, Bassoon." American Composers Alliance, https://composers.com/composers/allan-blank/four-poems-soprano-flute-clarinet-bassoon. Accessed 8 Sep. 2020.
"About." Third Wheel, http://thirdwheeltrio.com/about/. Accessed 8 Sep. 2020.

Cataloguer: Roxanne Lafleur, University of Ottawa

Record: CRM-whohasseen-blank-2

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