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Hate Songs
''Hate Songs for Mezzo-Soprano and Orchestra'', or simply ''Hate Songs'', is an operatic song cycle for mezzo-soprano and orchestra by Norwegian composer Marcus Paus based on poetry by American poet Dorothy Parker. Paus' ''Hate Songs'' was published in 2014, and was included on Tora Augestad's and the Oslo Philharmonic's album ''Portraying Passion: Works by Weill/Paus/Ives'' (2018) with works by Paus, Kurt Weill and Charles Ives; it has received critical acclaim and was awarded the Spellemannprisen (Norwegian Grammy Award) for 2018 in the Classical class. Paus' ''Hate Songs'' is based on the poem "Women: A Hate Song" published by Parker in ''Vanity Fair (American magazine 1913–1936), Vanity Fair'' in 1916 and subsequent poems that have been described as "a photo-book of New York with the female caricatures that Parker abhorred or despised, notably idle bourgeois ladies, who were the object of patriarchal worship as angelic domestic creatures." Professor of musicology Ralph P. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcus Paus
Marcus Nicolay Paus (; born 14 October 1979) is a Norwegian composer and one of the most performed contemporary Scandinavian composers. As a classical contemporary composer he is noted as a representative of a reorientation toward tradition, tonality and melody, and his works have been lauded by critics in Norway and abroad. His work includes chamber music, choral works, solo works, concerts, orchestral works, operas, symphonies and church music, as well as works for theatre, film and television. Paus is regarded as "one of the most celebrated classical composers of Norway" and "the leading Norwegian composer of his generation." Although often tonal and melodically driven, Paus's music employs a wide range of both traditional and modernist techniques, and several of Paus's works have been influenced by folk music and non-Western classical music. Paus has referred to himself as a " melodist," "anarcho-traditionalist" or a humanist composer, and is known for advocating musical plura ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |