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- Judith Weir
Don't Let That Horse (1990)
- Chester Music Ltd (World)
- hn
- Soprano
- 2 min
- Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Programme Note
Don't Let that Horse for voice and horn was written for Jane Manning and Roger Montgomery and first performed by them at the Glasgow Musica Nova Festival on 16 September 1990. The text is by Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
Don't let that horse
Don't let that horse
eat that violin
cried Chagall's mother
But he
kept right on
painting
And became famous
And kept on painting
The Horse With Violin In Mouth
And when he finally finished it
he jumped up upon the horse
and rode away
waving the violin
And then with a low bow gave it
to the first naked nude he ran across
And there were no strings
attached
Laurence Ferlinghetti (b. 1919)
(Please ask for reproduction permission at New Directions Publishing Group)
© Judith Weir
Don't let that horse
Don't let that horse
eat that violin
cried Chagall's mother
But he
kept right on
painting
And became famous
And kept on painting
The Horse With Violin In Mouth
And when he finally finished it
he jumped up upon the horse
and rode away
waving the violin
And then with a low bow gave it
to the first naked nude he ran across
And there were no strings
attached
Laurence Ferlinghetti (b. 1919)
(Please ask for reproduction permission at New Directions Publishing Group)
© Judith Weir
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