Pacific Chorale/St.Clair - Bolcom:Canclones De Lorca

Winner of a Pulitzer Prize and multiple GRAMMY� awards, William Bolcom is one of America's leading composers with a prolific and widely performed catalogue. Written for tenor Pl�cido Domingo, Canciones de Lorca explores the full variety of that Spanish poet's surrealistic humour, passion and mystery, as well as invoking the Andalusian flamenco and popular song-lyric atmosphere the composer feels is latent in each poem. Bolcom interprets the legend of Prometheus as a metaphor for our turbulent times, starkly examining how we are chained to a rock of technological dependency but dedicating his work to hope and a peace derived from greater universal understanding.