“From the Drawer”, new music for Tenor or Soprano, with Flute, Clarinet, Bassoon, and Horn

SOMERVILLE, Mass. - Nov. 5, 2015 - PRLog -- Noteworthy Sheet Music, LLC (NSM) is an online sheet music publishing enterprise with a catalog of >135 editions, most of which are unavailable from other sources.  NSM specializes in, but is not limited to, sheet music for flute and alto flute.  They offer original contemporary works by distinguished American composers, facsimile editions of rare historical scores, and unique transcriptions of pieces from the classical repertoire.  Selected NSM publications are offered as professionally-printed hard copy versions, and most of NSM’s catalog listings are available as convenient pdf downloads from the NSM website.  Visit www.NoteworthySheetMusic.com for additional information about the new release mentioned below and other NSM editions.  New sheet music selections are uploaded often, along with preview pages, contributing composer biographies, useful links, reviews and articles.

Noteworthy Sheet Music, LLC has recently released a new composition written by flutist/composer/arranger Peter H. Bloom called From the Drawer.  In this piece, Mr. Bloom sets to music the text of the poem of the same name written by the Greek poet Constantine Cavafy in 1923.  The lyrics are intended to be sung by either tenor or soprano voice, with accompaniment by flute (doubling piccolo), clarinet in B-flat, bassoon, and horn in F.

The following description is taken from the preface (copyright © 2015) to From the Drawer written by the composer, Peter H. Bloom, and republished here with his permission:

“Constantine Cavafy’s 1923 poem, From the Drawer, captures the acerbic condition of longing, the impossibly private nature of affection, and the occultation of time. Its poignancy is universal; transcending gender, age, era, place, and even translation.  Rather than rely on one particular translation of Cavafy’s text, I’ve drawn on a number of versions to arrive at a paraphrase that both informs and is shaped by the musical score.

The musical setting is a sonic image of the intensely emotional response to a flood of memory that informs the poet’s narrative: now pensive, now anxious, now wistful, now joyous, now fraught, now resigned, and ever mercurial.”

Click the link to be transferred to the listing for From the Drawer on the Noteworthy Sheet Music website, where you can find pricing and additional information about the piece and the composer:https://www.noteworthysheetmusic.com/sheet-music/ensemble-tags/voice/328-bloom-from-the-drawer-tenor-or-soprano-flute-clarinet-bassoon-horn

Several of Peter H. Bloom’s other compositions and arrangements are available from NSM as well, including Ablaze She Came in the Dream (for flute, viola, and guitar), The Wreck of the Hesperus by Hatton/Longfellow (arranged by Bloom for tenor and theatre orchestra), Bach’s Chaconne (transcribed for flute or alto flute alone), Marion Bauer’s Sonata (arranged for alto flute and piano), Saint-Saen’s Fantaisie (arranged for flute and harp), and Schubert’s Der Hirt auf dem Felsen (arranged for voice, alto flute, and piano).  Visit www.NoteworthySheetMusic.com for details.