Bitter Ending

Bitter Ending
Studio album by The Swingle Singers
Released 1972
Length ~30 minutes
Label Epic 80544
The Swingle Singers chronology

The Joy of Singing
(1972)
Bitter Ending
(1972)
Swingle II chronology
Madrigals
(1974)

Bitter Ending, is a recording of a work for eight voices composed by Andre Hodeir as commissioned by Ward Swingle. The work is performed by the Swingle Singers with a jazz quintet. This was the last work by Hodeir and is inspired by James Joyce's Finnegans Wake[1]

Personnel

The Swingle Singers:

References / external links

  1. Hodeir, Andre and Pautrot, Jean-Louis. The André Hodeir Jazz Reader (Google Books link)