Beth Anderson

Torero Piece

Year: 1973

Duration (in minutes): 7

Difficulty: Medium (college/community)

Category: solo voice(s) a cappella

Instruments: narrator/speaker

Publisher: available from the composer

Publisher website: www.beand.com


Video Links: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Vk5CSbHP2E


Video Links: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9gUPDFZ0_E


Description: Avaialble on the Pogus CD entitled PEACHY KEEN-O and also on the CD from Other Minds entitled 10+2=12 American Text-Sound Pieces. Recorded originally on 1750 Arch Records in the shorter form. "...humanitarian, simple, touching domesticity of the homely, often funny stories in T.P..." - Oakland Tribune 5/16/83; "...a duo work comprising a humorous narration...to wordless vocal gyrations" - Berkeley Gazette 5/16/83. Text-sound one speaker reads the phonemes derived from a Paint-By-Numbers scroll of a torero. the other speaker performs a story craeted by the speaker re the most dramatic event or relationship in that person's life. In the recorded versions (short and long) my mother discussed her relationship with me. Other performers have discussed playing topless cello on TV, the death of one's father, a baseball game, etc.

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