I Shall Wear Purple

for voice, piano and English horn (or saxophone)
by Sally Reid, composer, ASCAP

Program notes:

I Shall Wear Purple is based on Jenny Joseph's sassy text "Warning." If old age brings privileges, surely the freedom to wear what one pleases and to learn to spit should be included. This musical setting substitutes unfettered glee (in the guise of improvised "sprechstimme" passages and asymmetric meters) for conventional sobriety and decorum.

Selected Performance History:

• March 2001, Performance of I Shall Wear Purple during the Sixth International Festival of Women Composers and Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
  (audio taken from video of performance - tape entrance is late)
  soprano - Judith A. Coe; English horn - Sally Reid; piano - Kay Williams
  
• April 2000, work in progress improvisation of I Shall Wear Purple at Abilene Christian University.
  

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I Shall Wear Purple
http://www.acu.edu/~reid/compositions/purple.html
updated 5//10/01
Sally Reid, reid@acu.edu