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Stoned Prince

for baritone voice

Year
2013
Duration
25'
Category
Solo
Texts
libretto by Han Lash and Royce Vavrek
Commission
Commissioned by Loadbang
Premiere
April 8, 2013 · New York, NY (USA)
Symphony Space
Loadbang
Publisher
Schott

Stoned Prince examines moments in the public and imagined private life of His Royal Highness, Prince Harry. The music inhabits a bizarre, drunken, late-night emotional space. The preponderance of low instruments with only the trumpet and the baritone’s falsetto representing the upper range of sound serves as a disorienting canvas for a drama that unfolds via its hero’s drunken phone calls.

Movements

I Over a fry-up
II Convenience
III Interlude: Calling C., Part I (Hung Over)
IV HRH
V War
VI King
VII Interlude: Calling C., Part II (Pissed, again)
VIII Bright idea
IX To my mum
X Interlude: Calling C., Part III (Legless, again)
XI Over a fry-up (reprise)
XII Vegas (Epilogue)

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