Seven Songs on Poems of Adrienne Rich
Seven Songs on Poems of Adrienne Rich
Soprano and Piano
Composer's Note:
Renowned since the 1970's as a leading voice against institutionalized oppression based on sexual orientation, gender, race, religion, pecuniary status "” indeed, against the systemic inequality of our socio-political structure "” Adrienne Rich began her literary career in the late 1940's, writing a far different kind of poetry "” poems that she herself publicly denigrated as she accepted with open reluctance their inclusion in published volumes of her early poems.
My decision to set to music her early work was purely esthetic: These poems are, in my judgment (and, manifestly, in the opinion of the likes of W. H. Auden at the time of their composition), masterful. To me, they sing with a compelling lyrical voice. If Adrienne Rich had not evolved into the poet she became after the 1970's, these early gems of verse would haunt me nonetheless.
Movements: 1. Ideal Landscape, 2. The Celebration in the Plaza, 3. Bears, 4. Lucifer in the Train, 5. The Tree, 6. Holiday, 7. Last Song
Authored (or revised): 2021
Text source: Adrienne Rich, from THE DIAMOND CUTTERS. Set to music by permission of the Frances Goldin Literary Agency.
Duration (minutes): 26
Book format: score
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