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- John Corigliano
One Sweet Morning (for mezzo-soprano and string quintet) (2024)
- G Schirmer and Associated Music Publishers (World)
Commissioned by Apollo Chamber Players and generously underwritten by Michael Managan in celebration of the life of Carolyn Smith Managan.
Available after October 2027
Unavailable for performance.
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- Mezzo-soprano
- 5 min
- E.Y. “Yip” Harburg
- English
- 5th October 2024, Zilkha Hall Hobby Center for the Performing Arts, Houston, TX, United States of America
Programme Note
The composer writes about the text of the choral version of One Sweet Morning:
In searching for a text, I came across E. Y. (Yip) Harburg's Rhymes for the Irreverent: two small volumes of poems by the lyricist of the film "The Wizard of Oz," the musical Brigadoon, and many other timeless works. Harburg was a very political poet. He was most often very funny, but occasionally wrote poems of transcendental beauty like "One Sweet Morning."
This anti-war poem looks forward to "one sweet morning" when, "out of the flags and the bones buried under the clover," "spring will bloom"..."peace will come."
— John Corigliano
