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- John Corigliano
One Sweet Morning (for mezzo-soprano and string quintet) (2024)
- G Schirmer Inc (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
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
