Goblin Market, a melodrama -- a spoken narration with musical accompaniment -- is a superb example of Aaron Jay Kernis' gift for almost recklessly profligate inventiveness. Christina Rossetti's mysterious, very long 1859 poem "Goblin Market" (it's over 550 lines) is notable for its vividly pictorial, sensual (and sometimes unambiguously sexual) imagery. The story of two little Victorian girls, sisters, and their nearly fatal misadventures with a band of goblins, comes across as very strange indeed to modern sensibilities, ...
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Goblin Market, a melodrama -- a spoken narration with musical accompaniment -- is a superb example of Aaron Jay Kernis' gift for almost recklessly profligate inventiveness. Christina Rossetti's mysterious, very long 1859 poem "Goblin Market" (it's over 550 lines) is notable for its vividly pictorial, sensual (and sometimes unambiguously sexual) imagery. The story of two little Victorian girls, sisters, and their nearly fatal misadventures with a band of goblins, comes across as very strange indeed to modern sensibilities, but it opened the floodgates of Kernis' imagination. Although the work is endlessly intriguing it leaves an ambiguous impression on first hearing because there is simply so much going on. The music dazzles with its brilliant orchestration and torrents of fascinating, often gorgeous, musical ideas and it sounds like it could stand on its own as a concert work without the narration. The poetry is so rich and its language is just distant enough that listening to it closely tends to draw...
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