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Parables : a symphonic oratorio
Uniform Title
Parables. Vocal score
Title
Parables : a symphonic oratorio / Robert Aldridge ; text by Herschel Garfein.
Published
New York : C. F. Peters, c2009.
Physical Description
1 vocal score (xii, 126 p.) ; 27 cm.
Notes
Orchestral acc. reduced for piano.
Title also appears in Hebrew, Arabic and Greek.
Duration: ca. 45:00.
Includes preface by the composer (p. iii), notes about the text (p. iv), notes about the vocal score (p. xii), and biographical notes on the composer and librettist (p. [128-129]) in English.
Publisher's no.: 68292a (on p. [4] of cover: P68292a).
Pl. no.: 51096.
Sung primarily in English with some Arabic, Hebrew, Latin and Greek bits interpolated, with the Arabic, Hebrew and Greek transliterated. Words also printed as text (p. v-xi), with the Arabic, Hebrew and Greek in original script.
Summary
An oratorio in seven parts showing the intertwining of various religious faiths.
Format
Music Scores
Language
English; Arabic; Hebrew; Latin; Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
Added to Catalog
November 30, 2011
Contents
The God of others
Ibrahim and Ismail
Job
Finitum capax infinitum
The lilies
Division
What waits.
Plate number
51096 C.F. Peters
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