Name: La folia - Tawnie Olson by Tawnie Olson
Duration: 6 min 34 s
Description: This is a live recording of Katelyn Clark playing my barn-burning variations on the traditional "folia" bass line, which she commissioned with assistance from the Canada Council for the Arts.

Scel lem duib, SATB and harp, The Chamber Chorus of the Yale Camerata and Kristan Toczko, harp, Marguerite Brooks, cond.

Text and translation for "Scel lem duib":

Scel lem duib: 	I bring you tidings - 
dordaid dam,		the stag bells; 
snigid gaim, 		winter pours; 
ro-faith sam;		summer is gone.    

gaeth ard uar,	The wind is high and cold; 
isel grian, 		the sun is low, 
gair a rrith, 		its course is short; 
ruirthech rian; 	the sea churns.    

roruad rath,		Bracken reddens, 
ro-cleth cruth, 	its shape becomes hidden; 
ro-gab gnath  	the cries of wild geese
giugrann guth; 	are now usual.

ro-gab uacht		Cold has seized 
etti en, 			the wings of birds; 
aigre re: 		        an icy season - 
e mo scel. 		these are my tidings.

	- Anonymous, 9th century

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Tawnie Olson - Scel lem duib

Le Revenant
by Tawnie Olson
commissioned by Stacie Dunlop
dedicated to Stacie Dunlop and Krista Vincent
duration: ca. 3.45
sound engineer: Emmett Van Slyke

Le Revenant (The Ghost)
Comme les anges à l'oeil fauve,
Je reviendrai dans ton alcôve
Et vers toi glisserai sans bruit
Avec les ombres de la nuit;
Et je te donnerai, ma brune,
Des baisers froids comme la lune
Et des caresses de serpent
Autour d'une fosse rampant.
Quand viendra le matin livide,
Tu trouveras ma place vide,
Où jusqu'au soir il fera froid.
Comme d'autres par la tendresse,
Sur ta vie et sur ta jeunesse,
Moi, je veux régner par l'effroi.
–– Charles Baudelaire

Like angels with wild beast's eyes
I shall return to your bedroom
And silently glide toward you
With the shadows of the night;
And, dark beauty, I shall give you
Kisses cold as the moon
And the caresses of a snake
That crawls around a grave.
When the livid morning comes,
You'll find my place empty,
And it will be cold there till night.
I wish to hold sway over
Your life and youth by fear,
As others do by tenderness.
— trans. William Aggeler

Le Revenant

"All Nature Neglects" from "Meadowlark"
Ian David Rosenbaum, marimba (2014)

Because the Western Meadowlark has a syrinx, not a larynx, it can produce two completely independent pitches at the same time. These notes do not have to be part of the same overtone series, and they are fully independent in volume, frequently overlapping in their entrances as each note fades and in and out and bends in pitch. Heard in the wild, these subtleties are inaudible to humans; we can only perceive them when we listen to recordings that have been slowed down significantly.

The structure of this piece is rooted in the Meadowlark's song. The fixed media in the first movement is derived from a two-second recording (kindly provided to me by composer Allan Gordon Bell), which I stretched out to last over four and a half minutes and processed slightly.  The marimba music is also drawn from that slowed-down song.  It calls for very virtuosic playing; the percussionist must perform diminuendi with one hand and crescendi with the other in a kind of transcription of the slowly shifting, overlapping pitches of the original birdsong. The second and third movements of the piece use transcriptions and transformations of a Meadowlark recording made by Geoffrey A. Keller, which is used with permission from the Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. The second movement also uses a recording of peepers and bullfrogs made by Chad Stayrook at i-Park.

Meadowlark is dedicated to Ian Rosenbaum, who - against all odds - made me fall in love with the marimba, and to my mother, a lifelong birder who instilled in me a love of nature and of birdsong.

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Tawnie Olson - All Nature Neglects

Dressage Percussion Trio performing As Rain Hollows Stone by Tawnie Olson. Recorded and Engineered by Will Bennett

For more information about the recording, go to willowenbennett.com

As Rain Hollows Stone DressagePercussion

This is a live recording of Katelyn Clark playing my barn-burning variations on the traditional "folia" bass line, which she commissioned with assistance from the Canada Council for the Arts.

La folia - Tawnie Olson

Recording of the US Premiere of "Sailing to Byzantium" by Tawnie Olson.  December 2016.  
Foot in the Door Ensemble - The Hartt School of Music
Conductor: Edward Cumming
Soprano: Lydia McClain
Foot In the Door Ensemble: Elizabeth Ramos, Cara Cheung, Cihan Yücel, Francesca Gray, Mike Jones

Sailing to Byzantium, for soprano and chamber ensemble

The purpose of the Art Song Composition Award program of the Natiobnal Association of Teachers of Singing is to stimulate the creation of quality vocal literature through the cooperation of singer and composer.

Muses

09-3-Daybreak (Three Songs on Poems by Lorri Nielsen Glenn - Tawnie Olson)

Recorded by Pouya Hamidi on November 4th, 2014 at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, ON, Canada. Original work commissioned and premiered by Duo Novus.

Tawnie Olson | Spinning and Weaving

Danielle Gonzalez, multimedia percussionist

Recorded at the University of Michigan Duderstadt Video Studio
Colleen Bernstein and Tanner Tanyeri, percussion

Audio Introduction by Danielle Gonzalez
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Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
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Tawnie Olson As Rain Hollows Stone

Britten: This Little Babe (from Ceremony of Carols)

"Dusk" from "Three Songs on Poems by Lorri Neilsen Glenn" Magali Simard-Galdès, soprano, Olivier Hébert-Bouchard, piano (2016) Commissioned by the Canadian Art Song Project

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La folia - Tawnie Olson

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