Lamento di guerra, mezzo soprano and organ or synthesizer/accordion

Lamento di Guerra

The work is in two parts. ?Lamento di Guerra I? was written in the wake of the Gulf War; an initially plaintive lamentation turns more urgent and ends in howling. ?Lamento di Guerra II?, triggered by reports of atrocities in the Yugoslav civil war, has a more ritualistic character. The scoring for the vocal part is flexible, but the desired ?harsh? timbre is probably best achieved by a mezzo soprano or alto.