Immaculate, Bored, Off-Key and Vain
Instrumentation: This piece is available in a variety of arrangements:
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Baritone Voice and Ensemble (Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Violin, Viola, Cello) Baritone Voice and Ensemble (Flute, Clarinet, Vibraphone, Violin, Cello) Baritone Voice and Ensemble (Flute, Clarinet, Trumpet, Violin, Cello) Baritone Voice and Piano |
Duration: 13 minutes (4 songs)
Text by: Jack Prelutsky
Pages in score: 44 (voice and ensemble version); 26 (voice and piano version)
Cost: Purchase: $15.00 for piano version (two copies of score); $45 for ensemble version (score and parts) Movements:
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I. Dainty Dottie Dee II. Today is Very Boring III. Euphonica Jarre IV. I'm the Single Most Wonderful Person I Know |
Audio samples from a live performance by the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, with Timothy Jones, baritone, and Brett Mitchell, conductor.
Listen to the beginning of Dainty Dottie Dee.
Listen to the first 1:50 of Euphonica Jarre".
Listen to the last 1:15 of I'm the Single Most Wonderful Person I Know.
Review: Performance by the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble (June 26, 2004), Timothy Jones, baritone, and Brett Mitchell, conductor. From a review by Andrew Druckenbrod in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: "This work is just the sort of music classical music needs more of. Yes, music must take us to spiritual heights, but occasionally it can make us laugh, too."
Program Notes:
The texts for Immaculate, Bored, Off-Key and Vain come from children's poet Jack Prelutsky's 1984 collection New Kid on the Block. There is a great deal of whimsical humor in them. There is also a great deal of whimsical humor in Timothy Jones, for whom I wrote these songs. And there is a termendous amount of whimsical humor in my daughter, Gwyneth, to whom I dedicate this work.
