Four Cionco Songs: "Desert Beauty" for Soprano & Piano - Jason Thorpe Buchanan

Four Cionco Songs by Jason Thorpe Buchanan were written in November of 2007 for soprano Allesandra Cionco. They are a collaboration with living poet Eleanor G. Cionco and feature rich extended harmonies, ostinati, hemiola figures and pandiatonicism. The rich imagery provided by the poetry made the composition process very enjoyable and hopefully equally so to perform. These are the first songs written by Jason Thorpe Buchanan for solo voice and piano.

Desert Beauty - Eleanor G. Cionco
To see beauty in the desert
Is not easy for some
Too harsh, too dry, too brown, too dead
Plants struggle to live
And creatures as well
And dust devils dance in the heat of hell
But just as winter rains turn dirt to green
And spring makes desert cacti bloom
We, too, grow and change through the seasons
And awaken to beauties before thought of as gloom.

Allesandra Cionco - Soprano
Rachel Veblen - Piano

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Score now available at: http://www.melosmusic.com/jason/w_cionco.php

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