Three Poems by Amy Lowell (2018)
Colin Eatock
Product ID SON00002298
Composer Colin Eatock
Duration 07:00 min
Genre Classical, Choral
Instrumentation Choir and vocal ensemble
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Three Poems by Amy Lowell (2018)

Three Poems by Amy Lowell (2018)

SKU SON00002298
Composer Colin Eatock
Arranger
Genre Classical
Choral
Instrumentation Choir and vocal ensemble
Free description For a-cappella SATB choir
Grade 1
Duration 07:00 min
Year 2018

Score

€ 5,00

Program Notes

For a-cappella SATB choir

I: Absencce; II: Vintage; III: The Giver of Stars

The composer writes: Amy Lowell (1874-1925) was born into a prosperous Massachusetts family. A poet, critic and biographer, she was a leading exponent of the imagist movement, and was for a time closely allied with Ezra Pound. Her obituary stated, "She was upon the surface of things a Lowell, a New Englander and a spinster. But inside, everything was molten like the core of the earth.” In 1926, she was posthumously awarded a Pulitzer Prize.
 
Some of Lowell’s poetry was written for or about the actress Ada Dwyer Russell, with whom Lowell shared a “Boston marriage” (a 19th-century euphemism for a lesbian relationship) for more than a decade. I have chosen three of Lowell’s love poems for this set of choral songs. All three are concise and emotionally intense; vivid yet elegant in their imagery.

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