Content
- Sacco, Vanzetti
- Chinaman, Laundryman
for | Voice, piano |
Musical Editions | Music score |
Item no. | 768396 |
Author / Composer | Ruth Crawford |
Text | Hsi Tseng Tsiang |
Language | english |
Scope | 24 pages; 22.5 × 30.5 cm |
Duration | 9:00 minutes |
Publisher / Producer | Theodore Presser |
Producer No. | PRLK 14140103 |
ISBN | 9781491131657 |
UPC | 0680160023592 |
Ruth Crawford was a pioneering subversive in both American music and socioeconomic politics. In 1932 she discovered H. T. Tsiangs polemic poetry in The Daily Worker (a NYC-based Communist journal), and two poems leapt out as dramatically expressing oppression of the proletariat by the bourgeoisie, showing internal class struggle even within immigrant communities. This is the genesis of the songs Sacco, Vanzetti and Chinaman, Laundryman. Musically, Crawfords rigorous modernism not only serialized pitches, but other elements as well. This explains the slightly surprising title Two Ricercare, a reference to the Renaissance precursor of fugue.
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