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“America the Beautiful” was a song I learned as a child in school. I took it for granted in those days, not thinking about the deeper meaning of the words, nor realizing the potential embedded in that simple melody. It has taken Min Kwon’s brilliant project to get me to re-evaluate this iconic song and to explore its exquisite richness.
“Victoria Bond’s Sea to Shining Sea brought everything back to the central focus. Bond, in the house like many of the featured composers, described it as a mini-drama, and there was a clear and skillful musical narrative. “America The Beautiful” is about something, and this last work was of a piece with the best music on the concert, which was all about what the artists found beautiful about this country.” |
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Three Illuminations on Byzantine Chant (2021)
This work represents over twenty years of creative collaboration with my dear friend Victoria Bond. Chanting in Orthodox churches for the last quarter of a century, I wanted to select byzantine hymns that reflected the wide emotional range and spiritual message of Orthodox Christianity. I’m thrilled with the final result and excited to give the world premiere tonight here at Symphony Space on Victoria’s beloved series Cutting Edge Concerts. |
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Knowing that so much depends upon the split second timing, the page turner in this episode commits all the blunders I could think of. There is a surprise ending, however, which I would not want to disclose! |
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22' | Recording | Sheet Music |
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"Clara" an opera in two acts with music by Victoria Bond, and libretto by Barbara Krieger. Published by Theodore Presser. |
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The text of Leopold Bloom’s Homecoming comes from James Joyce's novel Ulysses, and is the pentultimate episode. |
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Using Washington's words as the basis for the text and similar in format to the Lincoln Portrait, the music is based on actual fife and drum tunes from Washington's era.
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Marshall Opera will present mezzo-soprano Mary Rice and pianist Amir Farid performing "I'm Told I'm a Citizen" from Victoria Bond's opera "Mrs. President." |
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WQXR Radio: A Thousand More Will Rise: Victoria Bond Finds Inspiration in Women Past and Present.
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Hanukkah opera “The Miracle of Light” presented by Chamber Opera Chicago December 10th and 17th 2017 at 3:00PM at The Royal George Theater, paired with “Amahl and the Night Visitors.”
The opera is about bullying – a very timely subject that ties together the relationship between contemporary bullying in schools and the bullying of a religious minority by their oppressors 2000 years ago. In “The Miracle of Light” a teenager is bullied by his classmates and in both stories the spirit of hope and forgiveness is symbolized by the light that would not be extinguished.
Soloists: 1 adult soprano, I boy soprano, 1 girl soprano, children's chorus, chamber ensemble. available in chamber orchestra and piano/vocal score.
A Hanukkah Opera premiered by Chamber Opera Chicago in 2016. The story tells of a high school student bullied by his classmates, and a teacher who brings the class together through her lesson on Hanukkah. |
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Sirens is a work that I will be composing to a text taken from episode 11 of James Joyce’s Ulysses. The action takes place in a bar, and involves two seductive barmaids who flirt with customers. Several men stand around the piano, singing and flirting with the barmaids, and Leopold Bloom observes the scene, feeling alienated and lonely. As with all of the episodes in Ulysses, this episode is about being an outsider, a stranger in a strange land, a misfit and someone who is scorned and reviled by the society in which he lives. Leopold Bloom is Jewish and experiences prejudice living in Dublin. He is also everyman or everywoman who feels apart and alone in the midst of a world that has no use for him or her.
The piece will be scored for the Cygnus Ensemble: 2 guitars, flute, oboe, violin, cello and piano and has been commissioned by the Shapiro Fund for the Cygnus Ensemble. This will be the fourth section of Ulysses that I will be setting, having already set episodes 12 (Cyclops); episode 17 (Leopold Bloom’s Homecoming) and episode 18 (Molly ManyBloom). It will be approximately 20 minutes long and will involve 5 singers: soprano, mezzo-soprano, tenor and bass-baritone.
https://soundcloud.com/victoria-bond-7/sets/molly-manybloom-excerpt |
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Sirens is a work that I will be composing to a text taken from episode 11 of James Joyce’s Ulysses. The action takes place in a bar, and involves two seductive barmaids who flirt with customers. Several men stand around the piano, singing and flirting with the barmaids, and Leopold Bloom observes the scene, feeling alienated and lonely. As with all of the episodes in Ulysses, this episode is about being an outsider, a stranger in a strange land, a misfit and someone who is scorned and reviled by the society in which he lives. Leopold Bloom is Jewish and experiences prejudice living in Dublin. He is also everyman or everywoman who feels apart and alone in the midst of a world that has no use for him or her.
The piece will be scored for the Cygnus Ensemble: 2 guitars, flute, oboe, violin, cello and piano and has been commissioned by the Shapiro Fund for the Cygnus Ensemble. This will be the fourth section of Ulysses that I will be setting, having already set episodes 12 (Cyclops); episode 17 (Leopold Bloom’s Homecoming) and episode 18 (Molly ManyBloom). It will be approximately 20 minutes long and will involve 5 singers: soprano, mezzo-soprano, tenor and bass-baritone.
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The eleventh episode in Ulysses is James Joyce’s verbal equivalent of musical counterpoint. He has called this episode a “fuga per canonem,” assigning to each character the role of a musical line. Actual music is quoted and sung by the denizens of a bar in the Ormond Hotel as they gather around the piano. |
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Opera based on updated Gulliver's Travels
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