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Caroline Charrière
Calamity Jane

Name: Atelier Bim
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for women choir

Text/Lyrics: Caroline Charrière
Level: intermediate
Languages: French
Duration: 3'
Genre: popular
Series: Swiss Composers Series
Composed: 2018

Reference: V127
CHF6.00
Choir score
(minimum 10 copies)

Details

Instrumentation:
SSAA
Published: 2024
Pages: 8
Publisher: Editions Bim
Movements:

Composer

Caroline Charrière (1960-2018)

Born 1960 in Fribourg (Switzerland), Caroline Charrière has accomplished flute studies at the Lausanne Conservatory (with Pierre Wavre) and completed them with Aurèle Nicolet and at the Royal North... Read more

About Calamity Jane

Caroline Charrière was committed to defending women's interests in all circumstances. Given the success of "Le cow-boy et la double-crème," a humorous fable about Lucky Luke's imaginary health journey, for women's choir or mixed choir, the avid comic book fan that she was also wanted to honor a comic book heroine. That heroine would be Calamity Jane (1852-1903). The tone of this work is quite different from that of the "cowboy." On one hand, the protagonist is a real historical figure; she was one of the first women to actively participate in the Westward expansion. On the other hand, the structure of the piece resembles that of a ballad, in the medieval sense of a poem with narrative verses alternating with a refrain. Caroline Charrière is the author of the lyrics, as she was with the "cowboy." She presents an extraordinary woman whose courage and taste for adventure shattered all the conventions of her time, even in the lawless territories of the American West. The voices of the choir alternately act as narrators and accompanists, mimicking the "sound" of Western music or illustrating the action with onomatopoeic sounds.
Irène Minder-Jeanneret