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The Twenty-ninth Bather

mezzo soprano & piano
text by Walt Whitman

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ABOUT

This is a setting of a Whitman poem in one of his tastefully erotic moments; the piano part, at times, can be a bit wild and at other times there is just a hint of a sultry tango.

INSTRUMENTATION
mezzo soprano & piano
Range: g# to b flat”

DURATION
3:35

DATE OF COMPOSITION
1995

PERFORMANCES
21 October 1996 (World Premiere) Naomi Itami/Wendy Hiscocks (piano)
Seasons of Change, Guildford Book Festival, Guildford, UK.

1997 Camille van Lunen/Wendy Hiscocks
Harrison House, Halifax, UK.

2019 Victoria Hodgkinson/Wendy Hiscocks
CAM concert, London Song Festival, St. George’s, Hanover Square, London.

Victoria Hodgkinson rehearsing with the composer