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NIGHT SPEECH
Work for Baritone and Orchestra

I. Fire Song
II. Song tor the Soul
III. Going Away Song tor the Maker ot Nightmares
IV.Song tor the Soul Returning

Instrumentation: 3 (3rd pic)-3-3-3, 4-3-3-1, timp, 3 pare, hp, pt, solo baritone, str
Poetry: David Wagoner; Based on legends and myths ot Northwest Coast and Plateau Indians
Duration: 20 minutes

  "For the occasion Paulus wrote a cycle of four songs...on four poems from David
Wagoner's 'Who ShaH be the Sun?' The imagery of the poems is based on Northwest Indian
                         lore dealing with nightfall, sleep, ghastly dreams and reawakening. Paulus' style is a
                      modem romanticism that can touch the heart as well as the raw nerve, that kind of fine
                            balance between the lyric utterance and harsh dissonance achieved by Alban Berg
or...Benjamin Britten. Despite an orchestral palette colorful enough to evoke the coming of
                       evening fire and nightmarish monsters, Paulus always managed to avoid overwhelming
                  the singer................. There are very few compositions I have heard among those recently
                          composed for solo voice and orchestra that have seemed so effective and moving....
                                                                                                            a briHiant new piece....... "
                                                              --Travis Rivers, The Spokesman-Review Spokane Chronicle

Publisher: Paulus Publications

Recordings: Promotional recording available

Commissioned by the Spokane Symphony to honor the Washington Centennial Celebration

World Premiere: Spokane Symphony, April 21, 1989
Baritone: Thomas Hampson
Conductor: Bruce Ferden