Performances

World Premiere: Andrea Chenoweth, soprano, Eric Charnofsky, piano, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio, September 23, 2007.

Text

“Whalefall,” by Elizabeth Bradfield, “Interpretive Work” (Arktoi Books, 2008).

Program Note

After hearing the poet read the text of this work while on a whale watching expedition in Southeast Alaska where she was serving as a naturalist,  I asked for and received permission to make a musical setting of it.

Alternate Versions

This work also exists in the form of and arrangement for viola and organ by the composer.

Discography

Recording by Andrea Chenoweth Wells, soprano; Eric Charnofsky, piano

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Whalefall has also been recorded in an arrangement for viola and piano by Michele LaCourse and Martin Amlin on MSR Classics (MS1474)