Merz Trio Hildegard von Bingen Cheryl FrancesHoad

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MERZ TRIO • Brigid Coleridge, violin • Julia Yang, cello • Lee Dionne, piano • Hymn: O ignee spiritus (O Fiery Spirit) -- Hildegard von Bingen (1098 - 1179) • arr. Merz Trio • My Fleeting Angel (2005) -- Cheryl Frances-Hoad (b. 1980) • 1. Larghetto • 2. Allegro spiritoso e scherzoso • 3. Allegretto eleganza • Hildegard von Bingen, also known as Saint Hildegard and the Sibyl of the Rhine, was a German Benedictine abbess, writer, composer, philosopher, mystic, visionary, and polymath of the High Middle Ages. She is one of the best-known composers of sacred monophony, as well as the most recorded in modern history. She has been considered by many in Europe to be the founder of scientific natural history in Germany. • Cheryl Frances-Hoad's My Fleeting Angel is based on a short story by Sylvia Plath entitled The Wishing Box about a husband and wife with entirely different dream-lives. The husband, Harold, incessantly has colorful, inventive, pleasant and significant-seeming dreams both while asleep and in waking reverie. The wife, Agnes, used to have a fertile dream-life as a child but now dreams only infrequently and always ominously. Harold’s delight in his dreams comes to infuriate and alienate her and she declines into a life of sleepless depression, eventually killing herself with an overdose. My Fleeting Angel is patterned in three fairly short movements reflecting three junctures in the story. • (excerpted from notes by Malcolm MacDonald) • NEC Website: www.necmusic.edu • NEC Facebook: / necmusic • NEC Instagram: / necmusic • NEC Twitter: / necmusic • NEC TikTok: / new_england_conservatory

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