HCE, settings of Joyce and Pound

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Music by Robert Hughes for voice, chorus, ensembles and orchestra
Texts by James Joyce, Ezra Pound, Friedrich Nietzsche, James Broughton
Arrangements of five songs from the Gold Rush era with Corinne Swall, coloratura soprano
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HCE, from James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake

for six voices

Compleynt, from Ezra Pound’s Canto XXX

for two sopranos and harpsichord

Madrigal, from Ezra Pound’s Canto LXXXI

for four voices

That’s Me

for Dixieland Band

Herbert’s Babies

for French horn (and overdub) and electric bass

An Adament Apple

a canon for two voice parts

Missa Corporis, from James Broughton’s Golden Positions

for chorus

The Usury Canto, from Ezra Pound’s Canto XLV

for children’s voices and Prophet 10 synthesizer

Arktos

for full orchestra, conducted by Robert Hughes

The Desert Grows, from Friedrich Nietzsche’s poem

for voice and Prophet 10 synthesizer, performed by Robert Hughes

The Dirty Miner

for soprano and small orchestra, arranged by Robert Hughes

I Have Found Thee, But Too Late, by Stephen Massett

for soprano and small orchestra, arranged by Robert Hughes

“Qui la voce” from I Puritani by Vincenzo Bellini

for soprano and small orchestra, Bellini’s original score conducted by Robert Hughes

Minnie Adair, by G. T. Evans

for soprano and small orchestra, arranged by Robert Hughes

Comin’ Thro’ the Rye

for soprano and small orchestra, arranged by Robert Hughes