New York, NY – Carl Fischer Music announces the release of Sì del cammino e sì della pietate (O5675 � Score � $7.99) composed by Martin Bresnick.
Martin Bresnick�s Sì del cammino e s� della pietate (Of the Journey and of the Pity) for Large Carillon was commissioned by the Yale University Guild of Carillonneurs for the 50th Anniversary of the Yale Memorial Carillon. The piece gets its name from Dante�s Inferno, Canto II which reads:
The day was departing, and the darkening air
relieved the spirits of the earth
from their labors; and I, myself, alone
prepared to undergo the struggle
of the journey and of the pity involved,
that my memory, unerring, will retrace.
Oh Muse, oh high genius, help now;
Sì del cammino e sì della pietate is available now through Carl Fischer Music, or your favorite music retailer.
Martin Bresnick is a world renowned composer and pedagogue and is currently professor of Composition and Coordinator of the Composition Department at the Yale School of Music. Bresnick�s compositions cover a wide range of instrumentation from chamber music of all types to symphonic works and computer music. His orchestral music has been performed by the National Symphony, Chicago Symphony, and American Composers Orchestra, to name only a few. His chamber music has been performed in concert by The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Sonor, Da Capo Chamber Players, Speculum Musicae, Bang on a Can All Stars, and many more equally renowned international ensembles. For more information, see our Composer Page.
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