The Edge of Great Quiet:
Songs from Alaska
for mezzo-soprano and clarinet
by Sally Reid, composer, ASCAP
set to texts by Alaskan Poets
duration: 12.25 minutes
Program Notes:
The Edge of Great Quiet: Songs from Alaska, celebrates
the cold, personal struggle and loneliness, the renewal/forgiveness
of spring, and the glories of the midnight sun in musical settings
of five texts by Alaskan poets. These poems appeared in poetryALASKAwomen:
Top of the World, a collection published for musicALASKAwomen
by Arts Venture in 1993.
Selected Performance History:
- April 3, 2000 - Performance of three songs from The
Edge of Great Quiet: Songs from Alaska, for mezzo-soprano
and clarinet, by Julie Pruett and Charles Coltman at the Meyerson
Center, Dallas, TX.
II. Two Stones
IV. Lonely V. Midnight Sun
- July 7, 1999 - Performance of The Edge of Great Quiet:
Songs from Alaska, for mezzo-soprano and clarinet, by
Berkeley Price and Isabelle Ganz during the XI International
Congress on Women in Music in London, England.
- I. On a Day of White Trees II. Two StonesIII. April
IV. Lonely V. Midnight Sun
- April 21, 1999 - Performance of The Edge of Great Quiet:
Songs from Alaska, for mezzo-soprano and clarinet, by
Richard Nunemaker and Isabelle Ganz on a Houston Composers' Alliance
season concert.
- February 1998 - Performance of three songs from The
Edge of Great Quiet: Songs from Alaska, for mezzo-soprano
and clarinet, during the Region VI SCI conference at the University
of Texas at Arlington.
II. Two StonesIII. AprilIV. Lonely
- The Edge of Great Quiet: Songs from Alaska,
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from Movement II, Two Stones, Julie Pruett at Abilene Composers
Concert, Hardin Simmons University.
- March 22, 1996 - Performance of "Two Stones" (from
The Edge of Great Quiet: Songs from Alaska, a work
for mezzo-soprano and clarinet) by Dr. Suzanne Summerville during
the Fourth Festival of Women Composers International at Indiana
University of Pennsylvania in Indiana, PA.
- September, 1994 - Performance of The Edge of Great
Quiet: Songs from Alaska, for mezzo-soprano and clarinet,
performed by Richard Nunemaker of the Houston Symphony and a
faculty soloist at Chico State University, Chico, California.
- February, 1994 - Performance of The Edge of Great Quiet:
Songs from Alaska, a work for mezzo-soprano and clarinet,
commissioned by Richard Nunemaker of the Houston Symphony and
performed in San Francisco on an Opus 90 concert.
- February 6, 1994 - Premiére performance of
The Edge of Great Quiet: Songs from Alaska, a work
for mezzo-soprano and clarinet, commissioned by Richard Nunemaker
of the Houston Symphony and performed at the University of Alaska,
Fairbanks by Nunemaker and Suzanne Summerville.
Score Samples:
I.
On a Day of White Trees
II. Two
Stones
III. April
IV. Lonely
V. Midnight Sun
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The Edge of Great Quiet: Songs from Alaska by Sally Reid,
reid@acu.edu
I.
On a Day of White Trees