The Wordly Hope - Carol Barnett - Score

The Day of Hope .- The Wordly Hope / Marhaba! / The Day of Hope (2004)

... Commissioned by the Augsburg College Riverside Singers, Nancy Grundahl, director, for the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize Forum ...

Composer(s): Barnett, Carol (born in 1949) [ USA ]

Text by Khayyám, Omar (1048-1131) [Iran ; Persia]
Ebadi, Shirin (born in 1947) [Iran]
Shirazi, Saadi (1210-1291) [Iran ; Persia]
Hafez (1315-1390) [Iran]

Adaptor of the text: Fitzgerald, Edward (1809-1883) [Great Britain]
Clarke, Henry Wilberforce (1840-1945) [United Kingdom]
Bell, Gertrude Lowthian (1868-1926) [United Kingdom]
Pourjavady, Nasdrollah (born in 1943) [Iran]
Wilson, Peter Lamborn (born in 1945)

Edition

Published by Roger Dean [USA] , 2004

Ref. : 45/1159R-1 (40 p.)

Type of material: Full Score and parts

Description

Text in: English

Epoque: 21st century

Genre-Style-Form: Secular

Mood of the piece: incantatory ; meditative ; inspirational

Type of Choir: SSAA (4 women voices )

Instruments: Oboe (1) ; Percussion (1) ; Harp (1)

Difficulty choir (incr.from 1 to 5): 3

Difficulty conductor (incr.from A to E): C

Tonality: Tonal centers

Duration: 12.0 min.

Source of text: Rubaiyat by Omar Khayyam (11th cent.) ; Shirin Ebadi's Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech ; Saadi Shirazi's The Bustan (1257), translated by H. Wilberforce Clarke ; The Divan of Hafiz (14th cent.), translated by Gertrude Lowthian Bell ; The Drunken Universe: An Anthology of Persian Sufi Poetry by Peter Lamborn Wilson and Nasrollah Pourjavady