Seven Poems by E.E. Cummings
Seven Poems by E.E. Cummings
Soprano and Piano
Composer's Note:
Composed in early 1990, this song cycle brings together seven inventive, magical, and verbally brilliant poems by one of America's essential poets, arranged in an arch form according to musical materials and characters. The first, fourth and last songs refer to people, and have a narrative, cabaret quality. The second and sixth are devotional. The third and fifth are love poems. Both voice and piano parts are challenging, but also outgoing, tender, fanciful and fervent.
Movements: 1. maggie and milly and molly and may 2. how generous is that himself the sun 3. i carry your heart with me 4. if you can't eat you got to 5. up into the silence the green 6. i am a little church (no great cathedral) 7. dominic has
Authored (or revised): 1990
Published: 2026
Text source: E.E. Cummings, Seven Poems from Complete Poems, 1913-1962, by E. E. Cummings, used with the permission of Liveright Publishing Corporation, Copyright 1923-1962 by the Trustees for the E.E.Cummings Trust, Copyright 1961, 1963, 1968 by Marion Morehouse Cummings.
Duration (minutes): 20
First performance: Jill Hallett Levis, soprano; Elaine Greenfield, piano; Burlington and Montpelier, Vermont
Book format: Score
SKU
ACA-SHWN-038Subtotal
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