
PETER JAMES LEARN
Composer
SCORES AND RECORDINGS
VOCAL MUSIC
THE LONELY DAUGHTER OF THE AIR (2020) 8'
Soprano and Piano
(After Sibelius' "Luonnotar," with Finnish text from the Kalevala and my original English text)
Commissioned by Laura Libby McCall
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BABYLON INCISIONS: SNIPPETS OF WAR PORN (2019) 8'
Three Sopranos and Piano
Text excerpted from Roy Scranton's prose-poetry novel "War Porn"
Commissioned by Laura Libby McCall
and Syracuse University Graduate Vocalists
Live Performance
Recording with Score
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THAMES SONGS (2017) 24' (6 Movements)
Soprano Vocalise (or Soprano Instrument) and Piano
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NERO MONOLOGUES (2017) 60'
Chamber Opera; Soprano and Dancer/Actor featured
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Full Opera - 8/8/17
London Performance
Sarah Toth, Bertie Baigent, Phaedra Ensemble Libretto: Sarah Toth/Geoffrey Lehmann
Revised aria: "Ode to the Beauty of the World" (US Premiere)
ACT I EXCERPT - Sinfonia - Aria:
Galba Does not Exist - Recit: A Vision
Addressed to Emperors of the Future -
Mono: Advice for Emperors
ACT II EXCERPT - Aria: Notes for a
New Civilization - Mono: Eating with
Friends - Mono: Our Sun-God at Home
with Poppaea
ACT III EXCERPT - Mono: Imagined
Scenes from the Second Half of My Life -
Aria/Trope: In Un Sospir - Arr.: Sleep is
Supposed to Be (Copland)
WHITMAN SONGS (2015) 15' (3 Songs)
Soprano and String Quartet (Text from Walt Whitman and Federico Garcia Lorca)
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Video:
ODE TO WALT WHITMAN (LORCA)
MIRACLES (WHITMAN)
Commissioned by Rebekah Smeltzer
A CLEAR MIDNIGHT (WHITMAN)
ALL OF THE DAY SHOULD NOT BE DAYTIME
SSAATTBB Choir, with SAT solo/group soli parts
Text from Henry David Thoreau's
"A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers"
(2014) 8-9' (aleatoric sections)
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RUMORS FROM AN AEOLIAN HARP (2014) 10'
String Orchestra and Large SSAATTBB Choir, with Coloratura, Mezzo, and Alto soloists
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Text by Henry David Thoreau
MAB (2014) 9'
Soprano and Percussionist (Soprano uses percussion and moves dramatically)
Text drawn from "Queen Mab"
by Percy B. Shelley
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Commissioned by the
ReSound Duo
MAXIMS AND INTERLUDES (2010) 10' (5 Songs)
Soprano and Piano
Text from Nietzsche's "Beyond Good and Evil"
Written for Laura Libby McCall and Josh Oxford
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I: Madness
II: Monsters
III: Cold
IV: Love
V: Genius