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The Blood Jet (poems by Sylvia Plath) — priced for 2 copies
SM-000598944
- Composer
- Lori Laitman
-
Lyricist
-
Sylvia Plath
- Publisher
- Enchanted Knickers Music
- Genre
-
Classical / Song
- Instrumentation
- Piano, Soprano
- Scored for
- Solo, Accompanying piano
- Type of score
- Piano-vocal score
- Duration
- 14'30"
- Language
- English
- Difficulty
- Difficult
- Year of composition
- 2008
Description
Dr. Adelaide Whitaker commissioned The Blood Jet, which is dedicated to soprano Sari Gruber. Different facets of Plath’s life are presented in these four poems, with the first and last focusing on Plath’s love for her children. Word painting is used throughout and the sparseness of the piano in Kindness is meant to capture the dulled emotions of depression.
The poems are used by permission of The Plath Estate. You can hear the premiere recording with soprano Sari Gruber and pianist/composer Lori Laitman on the Naxos CD set "Living in the Body" on Spotify.