Ernest Harry Adams: Malia (The Spell)
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Channel: PSearPianist · 2015 · Music
Phillip Sear plays a seductive intermezzo by the American composer Ernest Harry Adams (1886-1959).
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I can't tell you much about Ernest Henry ('Harry') Adams (1886-1959) except that he was born, and died (on Christmas Day), in Massachusetts, and wrote a piano concerto, songs and chamber music, and a few piano pieces, of which 'Witches in the Wind' is still played by lots of piano students to this day. The title of this intermezzo, from 1916, seems to be inspired by an 1891 verismo melodrama of the same name by the Sicilian writer Luigi Capuana (1839-1915), which inspired various musicians (it was set as an opera by Frontini, and Paolo Tosti wrote a song of the same name). Whether this piece was written in connection with a production of the play I have no idea.
My thumbnail shows a colourized photo of Mimi Aguglia in a 1908 production of 'Malia'.
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