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- Yehudi Wyner
Sonnet: In the Arms of Sleep (2014)
- Associated Music Publishers Inc (World)
- fl, cl, vn, va, vc, hp
- S, 2Mz
- 10 min
- Elizabeth Bishop
- English
Programme Note
Composer note:
This beautiful early sonnet by Elizabeth Bishop is so vividly musical that I was drawn to it at once. It projects hunger for music, for melody, for rhythm, but even more, it suggests that music can calm (severe) disturbance and alleviate pain. I set the poem for soprano — specifically for Lucy Shelton — along with two female voices who embellish and comment on the soprano's line. The voices are embedded in an ensemble of flute, clarinet, violin, viola, cello, and harp. The atmosphere of the composition is rather meditative.
— Yehudi Wyner
This beautiful early sonnet by Elizabeth Bishop is so vividly musical that I was drawn to it at once. It projects hunger for music, for melody, for rhythm, but even more, it suggests that music can calm (severe) disturbance and alleviate pain. I set the poem for soprano — specifically for Lucy Shelton — along with two female voices who embellish and comment on the soprano's line. The voices are embedded in an ensemble of flute, clarinet, violin, viola, cello, and harp. The atmosphere of the composition is rather meditative.
— Yehudi Wyner