Clarice Assad

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    Instrumentation
    Soprano and piano trio
    Year
    2008
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    Confessions

    $50.00

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    Commissioned by Carnegie Hall

    Piano reduction included.

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    ABOUT CONFESSIONS
    This song cycle is a humorous cross-over project between cabaret and musical theater with hints of jazz and South American music. The songs deal with issues experienced by many women in our modern-day society. Rooted in the extremes, the songs depict a character who exposes her deepest, most hidden emotions and feelings to the world, mostly in a comedic way.

    The first song “Turn back the clock” (text by Catherine Maxymuk) is a funny yet frustrating reaction to the idea that women should look perfect, young, and thin at all costs. The second song, written in the French impressionist style, What will they think (text by Naomi Major) deals with deep insecurity, followed by a dream sequence in which the character fantasizes she is someone else but awakes to the re- reality of her world. The last song Fixation (text by Alissa McLaughlan) is a comical account of guilty pleasures and lack of self-control.