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Maggie and Milly and Molly and May – David Husser (b1981)
David Husser (b1981), received his Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign and his Masters in Music Education from the University of Oklahoma. David currently lives in Traverse City, Michigan, where he is a member of the teaches at Northwestern Michigan College and maintains a private piano studio. He also collaborates as a pianist with many individuals and organizations, and composes music for piano and various vocal ensembles. Maggie and Milly and Molly and May by e.e. cummings was first published in cummings’ fifteenth collection of verse, 95 Poems. Like many of his poems
Maggie and milly and molly and may depicts children at play and uses them as a vehicle to arrive at a universal statement about life. Husser’s playful arrangement mimic’s the singsong tone and style common to childhood nursery rhymes. In the story four children have gone to the beach to play and each child describes what they find in the process. Maggie finds a shell, milly finds a star fish, molly a “horrible thing,” and may a “smooth round stone.” This story is found illustrated and published in many different children’s books throughout the world.
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maggie and milly and molly and may
went down to the beach(to play one day)
and maggie discovered a shell that sang
so sweetly she couldn’t remember her troubles, and
milly befriended a stranded star
whose rays five languid fingers were;
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Harmony Jar – Peter Hilliard (b1975)
Hilliard and Boresi are a writing team devoted to adding beauty, energy, and above all humor back into classical music. Their award winning and crowd-pleasing operas, musicals, song cycles, and choral music combine a love of classical forms with a fresh, irreverent approach. Matt Boresi (b1975), is a teacher, director, writer, coach, and podcaster in Chicago. Peter Hilliard (b1975), is a teacher, conductor, composer, and blogger in Philadelphia. The Harmony Jar, is a piece for chorus, piano, and puppets. It may be hard to believe, but The Harmony Jar is not the first classical music puppet show Hilliard & Boresi have written.
NOTES FROM THE COMPOSER:
Unless you were attending Avant-Garde Puppet ‘happenings’ in Soho about 11 years ago, you probably missed ‘Eat Your Greens’: The Complete Operas of Verdi in 20 Minutes Performed By Vegetables, in which we re-enacted the ‘complete’ Verdi canon on a chopping block with hundreds of characters made of fresh produce. More than a decade later, we are at it again, having fun with classical music and puppets with this commissioned work for Vox Musica. In The Harmony Jar Matt has very cleverly named the three main characters after medieval modes. This allowed Hilliard to refer to those modes in the course of the piece. It also contains 2 of Matt’s favorite devices: sound effects and ridiculous phony Latin. Of course, there is also plenty of zaniness, and pretty moments too. Something for everyone, we hope, in this wacky musical fairy tale, including a moral about the power of singing together.
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