Life Story
(1994)
by Thomas Adès
- Description
- Soprano and Piano
- Duration
- 9
- Genres
- Soprano
- Text
- Tennessee Williams
- Instrumentation
- Languages
- English
- Commission
- Arrangement made for Sarah Leonard and Richard Rodney Bennett
- First Performance
- 8.7.94, Warwick Festival: Sarah Leonard/Richard Rodney Bennett
- Availability
0-571-51517-7 on sale
- Programme Notes
- Thomas Adès Life Story Words by Tennessee Williams This setting was made in April 1993 for the Mary Wiegold song-book. It reflects all the double-edges of the poem: comic and tragic, relaxed and formal, seedy and tender, with a toe-stubbing punchline. Thomas Adès