"In the Bleak Midwinter" [Robert Sirota]

"In the Bleak Midwinter" [Robert Sirota]

First line of lyrics: In the bleak mid-winter

Sirota, Robert; music (American, born 1949)

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

2014 [publication] [copyright]

genre: song|Christmas music|carol|sacred music

solo: soprano

instrumentation: viola|harp

initial sharps/flats: no sharps or flats

initial time signature: 3/4

origin: United States

male composer

English

Rossetti poem(s): "A Christmas Carol" ("In the bleak mid-winter")

Composition history: "Determined not to be intimidated by Holst’s version, I composed this original setting, for soprano, viola, & harp, of Christina Rossetti’s poem “In the Bleak Midwinter” for a Holiday Concert I produced at @metmuseum in Dec '14" (Sirota).

Performance history: Debut performance: 19 Dec. 2014; Songs of the Season holiday concert; The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium, Metropolitan Museum of Art; Mellissa Hughes, soprano; Nadia Sirota, soprano; Victoria Drake, harpist. (BWW News Desk)

Format 1: musical score

performance time 4 minutes

Other data reference(s): @bobsirota (Robert Sirota). "Spotlight On: In the Bleak Midwinter (2014) Determined not to be intimidated by Holst’s version, I composed this original setting, for soprano, viola, & harp, of Christina Rossetti’s poem “In the Bleak Midwinter” for a Holiday Concert I produced at
@metmuseum in Dec '14." Twitter, 15 Dec. 2020, 11:02 a.m., https://twitter.com/bobsirota/status/1338877077253222406?s=20.
BWW News Desk, "Songs of the Season at Met Museum Features Robert Sirota, Nadia Sirota & More Tonight." Broadway World, https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Songs-of-the-Season-at-Met-Museum-to-Feature-Robert-Sirota-Nadia-Sirota-More-1219-20141218. Accessed 15 December 2020.
"Vocal Music." Robert Sirota, https://www.robertsirota.com/vocal. Accessed 15 December 2020.

Cataloguer: Emily McConkey, University of Ottawa

Record: CRM-christmascarolinthebleak-sirota

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