09 Jan

Posted at 21:58h in vocal music, voice + piano, works

mezzo-soprano & piano [5’]; words Yeshim Ternar; 2023. Commissioner: George Elliott Clarke Premiere: Laura Swankey and Juliet Palmer, The Canadian Music Centre, December 15, 2023. [audio mp3="https://www.julietpalmer.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Istanbul.mp3"][/audio] From The Book and the Veil: Escape from an Istanbul Harem, by Yeshim Ternar (Montréal: Véhicule Press, 1994) VII. Now, I, Yeshim, who’s fled every office chaise, From East to West, have sauntered East many...