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… A colleague suggested that I look into the poetry of the songs of Bob Dylan. Having not yet listened to the songs, I decided to send away for the texts only … and found many of them to be every bit as beautiful and as immediate as I had heard – and surprisingly well-suited to my own musical language … these would be in no way arrangements, or variations, or in any way derivations of the music of the original songs, which I decided to not hear before the cycle was complete … I intended to treat the Dylan lyrics as the poems I found them to be. Nor would their settings make any attempt at pop or rock writing. I wanted to take poetry I knew to be strongly associated with popular art and readdress it in terms of concert art – crossover in the opposite direction, one might say. Dylan granted his permission, and I set to work. John Corigliano
John Corigliano: Mr. Tambourine Man (version with orchestra)
No. 1. Prelude: Mr. Tambourine Man
No. 2. Clothes Line
No. 3. Blowin' in the Wind
No. 4. Masters of War
No. 5. All Along The Watchtower
No. 6. Chimes of Freedom
No. 7. Postlude: Forever Young
John Corigliano: 3 Hallucinations
No. 1. Sacrifice
No. 2. Hymn
No. 3. Ritual
December 2008
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No. 1. Prelude: Mr. Tambourine Man
