Missy Mazzoli: A Song for Mick Kelly for voice and ensemble

for soprano or alto voice, violin, clarinet, 2 keyboards, electric guitar, double bass

Text: Farnoosh Fathi

Composer note
A Song for Mick Kelly, from Victoire’s debut album Cathedral City, was inspired by a character in Carson McCullers’ novel The Heart is a Lonely Hunter. Mick Kelly is a fourteen-year-old with a strong imagination and a vivid inner life. She wants to be a composer, and even tries to build a violin out of a cigar box. In this work I imagine the music that Mick might write, setting lyrics by poet Farnoosh Fathi.

— Missy Mazzoli

Cathedral City is complex and imaginative, hooking the listener right at the beginning with the slow, meditative keyboard introduction to "A Door Into the Dark." Mazzoli commands attention through every piece, tying the works together with close relationships in structure and sound.
— Ashalen Sims, NPR: First Listen 19th September 2010