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The ''AIDS Quilt Songbook'' is an on-going collaborative song-cycle with subsequent additions responding to the stigma surrounding, ignorance of, and grief caused by the spread of HIV/AIDS, serving as a companion work to the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt. While its original printed edition consists of 18 songs with texts and music by American poets and composers, as a whole it includes numerous uncollected works. == Origins, Purpose, and Vision == American lyric baritone William Parker (5 August 1943 – 29 March 1993) found himself dissatisfied with the treatment of the HIV/AIDS epidemic within the musical community, particularly with AIDS benefit concerts- which were composed of “standard” repertoire and often did not mention HIV or AIDS and their effects explicitly. Inspired by this and the book ''Poets for Life: Seventy-Six Poets Respond to AIDS'', Parker contacted several prominent composers, including Lee Hoiby, Ricky Ian Gordon, and Libby Larsen, to create art songs inspired by the experiences of those living, coping with, and dying from the disease.〔Kyle Wayne Ferrill and Stanford Olsen. “William Parker and the AIDS Quilt Songbook” (DMA Treatise., Florida State University, 2005), 5, http://etd.lib.fsu.edu/theses/available/etd-04112005-173111/. 〕 Keith Ward describes the work as going “well beyond Parker’s mission.”〔Keith C. Ward, review of “The Aids Quilt Songbook: Songs by William Bolcom, Elizabeth Brown, Carl Byron, Chris DeBlasio, Ricky Ian Gordon, John Harbison, Fred Hersch, Lee Hoiby, David Krakauer, Annea Lockwood, John Musto, Ned Rorem, Donald St. Pierre, Richard Thomas, Donald Wheelock; And Trouble Came: Musical Responses to AIDS.” American Music vol. 16, no. 3 (1998): 353. http://www.jstor.org/stable/3052643 〕 In an interview with ''Opera News'', Parker stated his initial motivations for the project: :“ ''The AIDS Quilt Songbook'' invites people to take risks. Some texts are very graphic. They are about taking medication, being sick,throwing up,having to take it over again, the night sweats--the horror of the number of diseases that exist. We’re not sugar coating it and saying, ‘Well, we’re just having a little difficulty.’ We must show some of the rough sides. After all, most of the songs are about crucial times in our lives-- someone has died, someone has left you, you’ve inherited a lot of money, the boy’s gotten the girl. So, why can’t we sing about AIDS?”〔B. Kellow, "Art in the age of AIDS," Opera News vol. 56, no. 17 (June 1992): 42. Academic Search Premier, EBSCOhost, accessed September 30, 2013.〕 Parker’s vision for the songbook was similar to that of the original AIDS Memorial Quilt-- for the song-cycle to evolve with each musical addition. Parker also wanted an expansion in the musical forces used, which would occur in the ''Songbook''’s later incarnations.〔Ferrill, 8. 〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「NAMES Project AIDS Quilt Songbook」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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