Burning Sled

three songs for voice and viola (2006)

Duration: 14 minutes. Premiered on 14 May 2006 at the Nicholas Roerich Museum, NYC by Gilda Lyons, voice; Ann Roggen, viola. Lady Jane Elgee Wilde (1826-1896), who went by the pen name "Speranza," was an unconventional voice, a flamboyant personality, and an accomplished poet of her time, although she is overshadowed in literary history by her son, Oscar Wilde.  A staunch supporter of the nationalist movement in Ireland, she devoted much of her life to collecting the legends and folktales of her native land. Learn more>>>