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Based on three Tarot cards.
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Music: Victoria Bond


Text: Jonathan Fink


SATB Chorus.

"Your Voice is Gone"  was commissioned and premiered by the Manhattan Choral Ensemble in 2011 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire in 1911. 

I chose a letter from a young woman who worked at the factory to her mother in which she writes of her longing for home. She is lonely in New York without her family and dreams of them being together again. The poem ends with the tragic line “but even in my dreams your voice is gone.”

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The idea for the piano concerto Ancient Keys began as a fragile melody, sung by the pianist Paul Barnes, on a foggy hillside in the Czech city of Zlin. Paul and I were on our way to a recording session for my first piano concerto and he was relating to me his ecstatic experiences singing in the choir of a Greek Orthodox Church.
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Black Light was composed in 1988 but revised and expanded for pianist Paul Barnes and was given its premiere performance by Barnes in November of 1997 in the Czech Republic. The title “Black Light” suggests the light that shines from the music of African America – music which has had a profound effect on Bond’s own compositions. In this particular concerto, several aspects of that influence are explored.
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The three biblical women who give their names to these three books share a willingness to defy the conventions of their day to save their people.
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Frank Almond

Thomas Jefferson's words come alive with Victoria Bond's "Soul of a Nation."

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Concerto for alto saxophone and orchestra
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Theme and variation on the Brazilian samba

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Olga Vinokur has just recorded "Binary" for solo piano. Enjoy this premiere recording.

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Three Illuminations on Byzantine Chant (2021)
This work represents over twenty years of creative collaboration with my dear friend Victoria Bond. Chanting in Orthodox churches for the last quarter of a century, I wanted to select byzantine hymns that reflected the wide emotional range and spiritual message of Orthodox Christianity. I’m thrilled with the final result and excited to give the world premiere tonight here at Symphony Space on Victoria’s beloved series Cutting Edge Concerts.

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Knowing that so much depends upon the split second timing, the page turner in this episode commits all the blunders I could think of. There is a surprise ending, however, which I would not want to disclose!
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Six musical portraits of colorfully weird, menacing plant…It takes a composer of Bond's skill to work them into a vivid picture, and a player of Cooper's caliber to make the most of it. Together they had the audience laughing out loud.
- The Villager

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Based on a Greek Orthodox chant, this solo work became the basis for the piano concerto "Ancient Keys."

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Solo Piano 9'

Publisher: Protone Music

Simeron Kremate by composer Victoria Bond was written in the fall of 2018/spring of 2019 and is based on the Greek Orthodox crucifixion chant from the Holy Thursday service during Orthodox Holy Week. Its opening five-note melody in the plagal of the second mode features the augmented seconds that are characteristic of this musically compelling mode. 

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The Constitutional Convention of 1787 as seen through modern eyes with comparisons to recent history.

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"Clara" an opera in two acts with music by Victoria Bond, and libretto by Barbara Krieger. Published by Theodore Presser.

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"A tuneful pastiche of ragtime, blues and gospel traditions with a dash of modern dissonance." -The Courier-Journal

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The text of Leopold Bloom’s Homecoming comes from James Joyce's novel Ulysses, and is the pentultimate episode.

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Hanukkah opera “The Miracle of Light” presented by Chamber Opera Chicago December 10th and 17th 2017 at 3:00PM at The Royal George Theater, paired with “Amahl and the Night Visitors.”

The opera is about bullying – a very timely subject that ties together the relationship between contemporary bullying in schools and the bullying of a religious minority by their oppressors 2000 years ago. In “The Miracle of Light” a teenager is bullied by his classmates and in both stories the spirit of hope and forgiveness is symbolized by the light that would not be extinguished.

Soloists: 1 adult soprano, I boy soprano, 1 girl soprano, children's chorus, chamber ensemble. available in chamber orchestra and piano/vocal score.


A Hanukkah Opera premiered by Chamber Opera Chicago in 2016. The story tells of a high school student bullied by his classmates, and a teacher who brings the class together through her lesson on Hanukkah.

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The language is pervasively chromatic, yet it takes in influences of all sorts, including blues, a waltz and fragments of popular songs mentioned by Joyce." -The New York Times

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Using Washington's words as the basis for the text and similar in format to the Lincoln Portrait, the music is based on actual fife and drum tunes from Washington's era.
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WQXR Radio: A Thousand More Will Rise: Victoria Bond Finds Inspiration in Women Past and Present. 

 

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Sirens is a work that I will be composing to a text taken from episode 11 of James Joyce’s Ulysses. The action takes place in a bar, and involves two seductive barmaids who flirt with customers. Several men stand around the piano, singing and flirting with the barmaids, and Leopold Bloom observes the scene, feeling alienated and lonely. As with all of the episodes in Ulysses, this episode is about being an outsider, a stranger in a strange land, a misfit and someone who is scorned and reviled by the society in which he lives. Leopold Bloom is Jewish and experiences prejudice living in Dublin. He is also everyman or everywoman who feels apart and alone in the midst of a world that has no use for him or her.
The piece will be scored for the Cygnus Ensemble: 2 guitars, flute, oboe, violin, cello and piano and has been commissioned by the Shapiro Fund for the Cygnus Ensemble. This will be the fourth section of Ulysses that I will be setting, having already set episodes 12 (Cyclops); episode 17 (Leopold Bloom’s Homecoming) and episode 18 (Molly ManyBloom). It will be approximately 20 minutes long and will involve 5 singers: soprano, mezzo-soprano, tenor and bass-baritone.

https://soundcloud.com/victoria-bond-7/sets/molly-manybloom-excerpt

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Sirens is a work that I will be composing to a text taken from episode 11 of James Joyce’s Ulysses. The action takes place in a bar, and involves two seductive barmaids who flirt with customers. Several men stand around the piano, singing and flirting with the barmaids, and Leopold Bloom observes the scene, feeling alienated and lonely. As with all of the episodes in Ulysses, this episode is about being an outsider, a stranger in a strange land, a misfit and someone who is scorned and reviled by the society in which he lives. Leopold Bloom is Jewish and experiences prejudice living in Dublin. He is also everyman or everywoman who feels apart and alone in the midst of a world that has no use for him or her.
The piece will be scored for the Cygnus Ensemble: 2 guitars, flute, oboe, violin, cello and piano and has been commissioned by the Shapiro Fund for the Cygnus Ensemble. This will be the fourth section of Ulysses that I will be setting, having already set episodes 12 (Cyclops); episode 17 (Leopold Bloom’s Homecoming) and episode 18 (Molly ManyBloom). It will be approximately 20 minutes long and will involve 5 singers: soprano, mezzo-soprano, tenor and bass-baritone.

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