Hate Songs for Mezzo-Soprano and Orchestra

Hate Songs for Mezzo-Soprano and Orchestra, or simply Hate Songs, is an operatic song cycle for mezzo-soprano and orchestra by Norwegian composer Marcus Paus based on poetry by American poet Dorothy Parker. Paus' Hate Songs was published in 2014, and was included on Tora Augestad's and the Oslo Philharmonic's album Portraying Passion: Works by Weill/Paus/Ives (2018) with works by Paus, Kurt Weill and Charles Ives; it has received critical acclaim[1][2][3] and was awarded the Spellemannprisen (Norwegian Grammy Award) for 2018 in the Classical class.[4]

Hate Songs for Mezzo-Soprano and Orchestra
by Marcus Paus
Composed2013–2014

Paus' Hate Songs is based on the poem "Women: A Hate Song" published by Parker in Vanity Fair in 1916[5] and subsequent poems that have been described as "a photo-book of New York with the female caricatures that Parker abhorred or despised, notably idle bourgeois ladies, who were the object of patriarchal worship as angelic domestic creatures."[6]

Professor of musicology Ralph P. Locke wrote that Paus' Hate Songs "proved to be one of the most engaging works" in recent years; "the cycle expresses Parker's favorite theme: how awful human beings are, especially the male of the species."[2] Locke highlighted Augestad's recording of Hate Songs as one of the "best opera and vocal music" works in that year.[3]

Discography

References
  1. "Mange ansikter". Klassekampen.
  2. Locke, Ralph P. "Die sieben Todsünden and other works" (PDF). Kurt Weill Newsletter. 37 (1): 18.
  3. Locke, Ralph P. (2019-12-13). "Locke's List: Best Opera and Vocal Music of 2019". The Boston Musical Intelligencer.
  4. "Spellemann-vinnere 2018," NRK, 30 March 2019
  5. "Women: A Hate Song" by Dorothy Parker, Vanity Fair, August 1916
  6. Cortés Vieco, Francisco José (2017). "'I hate Women. They get on my Nerves' : Dorothy Parker's Poetry of Female Sympathy". ES Review – Spanish Journal of English Studies. University of Valladolid (38). doi:10.24197/ersjes.38.2017.65-88.
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