Riverly Is the Moon (2015) by Pamela Madsen Composer published on 2016-03-18T03:28:28Z Riverly is the Moon (2015) Pamela Madsen For solo clarinet and video https://vimeo.com/131947974 Riverly is the Moon for solo clarinet, was commissioned, premiered and recorded by Virginia Figueiredo. The video for Riverly is the Moon is by Jimena Sarno with photographs of the Blood Moon by Carolyn Yarnell, from the Blood Moon event of April 15, 2014. This work is from my collection of Luminous Etudes: Visions of the Black Madonna of Montserrat for solo instruments, piano, voice, projected images and electronics investigating sound and healing and the bio-mechanisms of vibro-acoustics in music performance. This solo work for clarinet references various “moon” songs and is inspired by the Blood Moon of April 2014 (first of a tetrad of four consecutive total lunar eclipses) and based on materials from the 14th century Llibre Vermell, and my encounter with the icon of the Black Madonna during my visit to the sanctuary of Montserrat, in Catalonia, Spain. The entire collection of etudes is awarded a project award New Music USA for work by New York City based new music pianists: Kathleen Supove and Eleonor Sandresky, and work with selected vocalists, LoadBang and instrumentalists for premiere in 2016. https://www.newmusicusa.org/projects/luminous-etudes-visions-of-the-black-madonna-of-montserrat/ Genre Classical
