Deborah Mason

Ars Poetica

Year: 2021

Duration (in minutes): 12

Difficulty: High (professional)

Category: solo voice(s) with piano

Instruments: baritone voice, piano, soprano

Publisher: debmason1@aol.com


Video Links: https://www.youtube.com/user/debmason1/videos

Score PDF: Ars-Poetica.pdf

Description: I noticed the famous poem "The Idea of Order at Key West' by Wallace Stevens years ago, and during the pandemic I went back to it as an expression of the need of the artist to create and the way that the Arts impact the listeners in new ways that they can now use as invisible guidelines like latitude and longitude lines to structure their own way forward in life. However, there are no words in that poem for the singer who so inspires the Poet, and so after a great search for a poem in a different language so the two poems could be experienced simultaneously but on different planes, I discovered the poem "Pacaypalla" by Pablo Neruda which is corresponding on so many levels I could hardly believe it. Both poets are Pulitzer Prize winners, and both poems are narrated on the shore, speak of the effect of the Arts on us all, with singing as the metaphor, and refer to the Artist as creating a new way forward to experience life on a higher plane. - Deborah Mason November, 2021

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