SCORES
The Twenty-ninth Bather
mezzo soprano & piano
text by Walt Whitman
LISTEN
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”
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.
