Hommage to a Broken Fairy Tale - Official Album Version by Anthony Joseph Lanman

Holly Roadfeldt - Piano Hommage to a Broken Fairy Tale – This Hommage was like the others – written for a specific person. This author, who is a master of fantasy, whimsy, the fantastical and the morbid, wrote a poem called Instructions (on How to Survive a Fairy Tale) that I love. In 2012, I set that poem for soprano and chamber orchestra and the music for this Hommage is inspired by that original song. In 2025 (shortly before the album’s release) some very disturbing revelations came out about this author which greatly disturbed and saddened me. As a result, I decided to disassociate from this author and look at this piece as more of a tribute to those stories that once fascinated my imagination.

Genre

Classical