David Sawer
From Morning to Midnight
Short instrumentation: 3 2 3 2 - 4 3 3 1 - timp, perc(4), hp, keyboard, strings - on stage players: cl, tpt, euph, tuba, perc(3)
Duration: 100'
Libretto: David Sawer
Dichter der Textvorlage: Georg Kaiser
Choir: SATB
Roles:
3 S
MS
A
3 T
2 Bar
1 B
Instrumentation details:
3 2 3 2 - 4 3 3 1 - timps, 4 perc, hp, keyboard, strings - on stage players: 1 cl, 1 tpt, 1 euph, 1 tuba, 3 perc
Sawer - From Morning to Midnight
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Work introduction
“His command of skills that brand-X composers take half a dozen operas to perfect is complete: dramatic shape and pace, the specific gravity of music-with-action. Structurally the piece is faultless. His musical language, very low on the squeaky-gate scale, need terrify no one: he loves his Debussy and Ravel (who doesn’t?) and has a nice line in some Prokofiev- style grotesquerie. Much more significant is the clarity of his musical thought: you know exactly why every note is there and what – operatically – it is for.” (Rodney Milnes, The Times)