JAMES KALLEMBACH composer
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A Primer Of Birds (Poems Of Ted Hughes)

I am currently at work on several settings from A Primer Of Birds by Ted Hughes for soprano and piano. I was fortunate to be intimately acquainted with Hughes's poetry after Motet Choir (my undergraduate chamber choir) took a setting by composer Paul Crabtree on tour. Motet Choir and Paul Crabtree both kindly gave me a volume of his poetry: I was hooked.

I am setting several of his fantastic poems about birds that explore the deeper meaning behind the behavior of the birds and their relationship to humans, creating a new mythology of sorts around them.

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A PRIMER OF BIRDS
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