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Paul Moravec: The Blizzard Voices
BMOP/sound
1054
Recording Release Date 
September 2017
SACD Recording 
SACD
Recording Length 
Disc 1: 61:21
  • Boston Modern Orchestra Project
  • Gil Rose, conductor

Paul Moravec’s contemporary update to the vaunted tradition of the oratorio, chronicling the fearsome “Schoolhouse Blizzard” that hit the Great Plains in 1888.

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Track listing

Disc 1 
Audio icon The Blizzard Voices
Audio icon I. Prologue - The Plains
Audio icon II. There Was a Day
Audio icon III. The Blizzard Bore Down
Audio icon IV. Billy
Audio icon V. I Never See a Sunflower
Audio icon VI. All Night the Wind Moaned
Audio icon VII. Lois Mae Royce
Audio icon VIII. Fare Thee Well, Mother
Audio icon IX. Telegraph
Audio icon X. Minnie Freeman
Audio icon XI. My Sister Was Born
Audio icon XII. In the Morning - XIII. Light the Fire
Audio icon XIV. The Searching Parties
Audio icon XV. In Remembrance
Audio icon XVI. Epilogue
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[CD Review] Moravec The Blizzard Voices

Paul Moravec’s ambitious The Blizzard Voices chronicles a snowstorm that suddenly struck across the upper Midwest in 1888 and killed hundreds, including a large number of children returning home from school. It is a secular oratorio, the third of the composer’s ‘American Historical’ series of large-scale choral works, and brings an impressive battery of musical resources to the task.

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