Choral SSA Choir and
Piano
SKU:
CF.CM6652
Composed by
Vincent Persichetti.
Performance Score. With
Standard notation. 8
pages. Duration 2:15.
Carl Fischer Music
#CM6652. Published by
Carl Fischer Music
(CF.CM6652).
ISBN
9781491144824. UPC:
680160902323. 6.875 X
10.5 inches. Key: C
major.
English.
Persichett
i was a big fan of the
poetry of e.e. cummings,
having set a number of
texts to music. Four
Cummings Choruses, Op.
98, Flower Songs (Cantata
No. 6), Op. 157, Glad and
Very (5 Cummings
Choruses, Cantata No. 5),
Op. 129, Spring Cantata
(Cantata No. 1), Op. 94,
and Two Cummings
Choruses, Op. 33 (G.
Schirmer) are among his
best-known choral works.
The two poems in Opus 46
are very dissimilar;
while Hist Whist may best
be performed in a
Halloween concert (little
ghost-things, twitchy
witches, the old woman
with the wart on her
nose), This Is the Garden
is a flowing, layered,
multi-colored descriptive
choral. The Two cummings
Choruses was premiered at
the 1952 MTNA Conference
in Dallas, TX by the
Sigma Alpha Iota
Chorus.
