{"id":6015,"date":"2024-02-09T17:24:12","date_gmt":"2024-02-09T22:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/?page_id=6015"},"modified":"2026-02-03T10:15:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T15:15:09","slug":"karim-al-zand-music-unsentimental-love-songs","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/?page_id=6015","title":{"rendered":"Karim Al-Zand: Music: Unsentimental Love Songs"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Unsentimental Love Songs<\/h2>\n

songs for voice & piano<\/h4>\n

U<\/span>nsentimental Love Songs is devoted to the quotidian side of love. Edna St. Vincent Millay\u2019s (1892\u20131950) sonnet I Shall Forget You Presently, My Dear<\/i> is a classic unsentimental love poem, one of many to feature her delicate balance of scoffing wit and fragile sincerity. It was published in her 1920 collection A Few Figs from Thistles<\/i>. The text of This is the Question<\/i> is drawn from a two-page spread in Charles Darwin\u2019s (1809\u20131882) diary, where the famed scientist methodically weighs the pros and cons of his impending nuptials.<\/p>\n

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His sensitive, if somewhat self-absorbed character comes across charmingly in his analysis. And his conclusions proved correct: he and Emma Wedgwood were happily married for 42 years. In Carrefour<\/i>, with a text by Amy Lowell, a lover uses the metaphor of honey bees to express the frustration her paramour has caused.<\/p>\n

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DATE
\n2023-2025<\/br><\/br><\/p>\n

DURATION
\n9 minutes (ongoing)<\/i><\/br><\/br><\/p>\n

INSTRUMENTATION
\nbaritone & piano | mezzo-soprano & piano<\/br><\/br><\/p>\n

PREMI\u00c8RE
\nJulia Holoman, mezzo-soprano; William Dopp bass-baritone | James Palmer, piano<\/br><\/br><\/p>\n

SONGS
\n1. I Shall Forget You Presently, My Dear (St. Vincent Millay)
\n2. This is the Question (Darwin)
\n3. Carrefour<\/br><\/br><\/p>\n

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SCORE
\nI Shall Forget You Presently<\/a>
\nThis is the Question<\/a>
\nCarrefour<\/a>
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AUDIO<\/p>\n

I Shall Forget You Presently, My Dear
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