Work Information
Rob Kapilow : Dr. Seuss’s Gertrude McFuzz
| Publisher |
G Schirmer Inc |
Category |
Soloist(s) and Orchestra |
| Year Composed |
1995 |
Duration |
16 Minutes |
| Solo Voice(s) |
Soprano, Girl Soprano |
Orchestration |
2(pic).2.2.2/2220/2perc/pf/str
alt.: 1(pic)0.2.1/1100/perc/pf/db |
| Languages |
English |
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| Vocal Score(s): |
50483575 |
Vocal Score(s): |
HL50483575 |
Programme Note
Synopsis: The classic Dr. Seuss story of the girl-bird who learns to like herself just as she is, presented in a delightfully lively musical style combining jazz, pop, and classical influences. Teaching self-acceptance and how to overcome petty envies and jealousies, Kapilow’s fanciful score uses a variety of instrumental timbre to evoke the story’s images.
Reviews
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Kapilow is a very skillful composer trained by Nadia Boulanger. The scores to Green Eggs and Ham and to Gertrude McFuzz, which had its world premiere Saturday, are cheerful, brisk neo-classical affairs with lots of familiar tunes from classical music and popular culture worked into the texture; it is the kind of idiom that can move with ease from Stravinskian scrub-a-dub to some low-down blues...
There's also an element in Kapilow's work that will remind others of the pastiche scores to early Disney and Looney Tunes cartoons. This observation is meant as a compliment -- it wasn't the intent of those soundtracks to introduce the language of concert music to generations of children, but that's what they did.
Richard Dyer, Boston Globe
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