Aaron Price

Nonsense Songs

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Duration: 4'

Instrumentation: Soprano, clarinet, and piano

Delivery Method: Physical Delivery
Performance Materials: Full Score

Nonsense Songs, Aaron N.  Price (2023-2024) 4'
for soprano, clarinet, and piano

Nonsense Songs (2023-2024) was commissioned by Haven Trio (Lindsay Kesselman, soprano; Kimberly Cole Luevano, clarinet; Midori Koga, piano), known to frequently perform beautiful, profoundly emotional pieces. The trio thus commissioned me to compose this piece as a more light-hearted, joyous piece for their repertoire.  

The piece features three texts: “The Sun” by J. Davis, “Second Movement” by Aaron N. Price (yours truly), and “The Purple Cow” by Gelett Burgess. I found the texts for “The Sun” and “The Purple Cow” in a book titled “A Nonsense Anthology” collected by Carol Wells in 1910, which inspired the title of the piece. I wrote the text for “Second Movement” out of the whimsical frustration of trying to find a companion text for the other two poems and finding a way to shift the mood between them.  

Haven Trio exquisitely premiered Nonsense Songs during their Connecticut Summerfest Artist Residency Showcase Concert on June 8, 2024, at Berkman Recital Hall (The Hartt School, University of Hartford) in West Hartford, CT, USA. 

— Aaron N. Price

Movements:
i. The Sun
ii. Second Movement
iii. Purple Cow

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Delivery Method: Physical Delivery
Performance Materials: Full Score

About the Work

Duration: 4'

Movements:
i. The Sun
ii. Second Movement
iii. Purple Cow

Instrumentation: Soprano, clarinet, and piano

Commissioned by: Haven Trio

Nonsense Songs (2023-2024) was commissioned by Haven Trio (Lindsay Kesselman, soprano; Kimberly Cole Luevano, clarinet; Midori Koga, piano), known to frequently perform beautiful, profoundly emotional pieces. The trio thus commissioned me to compose this piece as a more light-hearted, joyous piece for their repertoire. The piece features three texts: “The Sun” by J. Davis, “Second Movement” by Aaron N. Price (yours truly), and “The Purple Cow” by Gelett Burgess. I found the texts for “The Sun” and “The Purple Cow” in a book titled “A Nonsense Anthology” collected by Carol Wells in 1910, which inspired the title of the piece. I wrote the text for “Second Movement” out of the whimsical frustration of trying to find a companion text for the other two poems and finding a way to shift the mood between them. Haven Trio exquisitely premiered Nonsense Songs during their Connecticut Summerfest Artist Residency Showcase Concert on June 8, 2024, at Berkman Recital Hall (The Hartt School, University of Hartford) in West Hartford, CT, USA.

ISMN: 979-0-094-00898-3

Pages: 17