Canto (1979)
“Sheila Silver’s “Canto” matches Pound’s text with music of a comparably audacious directness, simplicity, and specificity, and therefore boldly occupies a psycho-spiritual region that few other composers have cared to approach: it is a beautiful work.”
(Richard Dyer, The Boston Globe)
A Setting of “Canto XXXIX” for baritone and viola, cello, bass, oboe, trumpet, trombone, 3 percussion. 9 players plus baritone (Ob (Eng. Hn), Trumpet, Trombone, vla, ce, cbs, 3 percuss)
1979. Commissioned by the Berkshire Music Center and premiered at Tanglewood, 1979. (Theodore Antiniou, cond.). Recorded with Michael Dash, baritone, Sheila Silver, cond, and members of Musicians’ Accord, Mode Records. Released 1989.
Canto