GFA Set Piece 2014

Composers Series

CURTIS CURTIS­SMITH Commissioned by the Guitar Foundation of America for the 2014 International Concert Artist Competition

Evocation

after ‘Gold Are My Flowers’

Edited by JORGE CABALLERO Michael Lorimer ‚ New York © 2014 by Adela Publishing (ASCAP). All Rights Reserved. International Copyright Secured. Michael Lorimer, 175 West 73rd Street (10G), New York NY 10023. www.MichaelLorimer.com

Evocation is a five-minute fantasy on one of the great twentieth-century chamber works with guitar, C. Curtis-Smith’s Gold Are My Flowers, a forty-four-minute cantata for soprano, baritone, and nine instruments. Gold was written in 1992 to commemorate the quincentennial of Columbus’s 1492 encounter with the New World. Evocation begins with the chime-like sonorities of guitar harmonics intoning the Navajo chant which ends Curtis-Smith’s cantata. The Navajo chant has an ecstatic, Genesis-like text: In all directions there is light. In all directions is beauty. May it be beautiful before me. It is beautiful. Smell the flowers.

Hear the singing. It is beautiful. In beauty it is finished. This brief opening in Evocation quickly segues into a recitative-like march, a souvenir of the cantata’s setting of Columbus’s words: “At dawn we saw naked people. I called them, I unfurled the royal banner, I ordered the captain of the Pinta and Niña to bear witness that I was taking possession of this island for the King and Queen. To this island I gave the name San Salvador. Having taken one island into possession, you can claim them all. Yes! You can claim them all!” As Evocation ends, the melody of the Navajo chant reappears. Michael Lorimer

Commissioned by the Guitar Foundation of America for the 2014 International Concert Artist Competition

Edited by Jorge Caballero

Evocation

Curtis Curtis-Smith

after ’Gold Are My Flowers’

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© 2014 Adela Publishing (ASCAP). All Rights Reserved. International Copyright Secured. Michael Lorimer, 175 West 73rd Street (10G), New York NY 10023. www.MichaelLorimer.com

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