Walcott Songs (Mezzo-Soprano and Cello)

Walcott Songs. (Mezzo-Soprano and Cello Two Performance Scores). By Bernard Rands. For Cello, Mezzo-Soprano. Vocal. Softcover. 32 pages. Schott Music #ED30028. Published by Schott Music.

In Walcott Songs the composer aims for the poems of Derek Walcott to find new meanings and expression, in a musical context, often beyond that imagined or intended by the poet. Through Rands' unique setting, the words are analyzed and explored through fragmentation, reordering, repetitions and changing pace of delivery.