NOCTURNE OF REMEMBERED SPRING

NOCTURNE OF REMEMBERED SPRING
Setting for Baritone and Piano
of the Poem in Six Parts by Conrad Aiken

Publisher
E. C. Schirmer Music Company

Catalog Number
9120

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Description
NOCTURNE OF REMEMBERED SPRING is a sort of meditation on memories of past love, as the speaker remembers traveling old paths of place and memory. Composer Juliana Hall captures in this extended setting the quiet calm of graceful scenes poet Conrad Aiken depicts, as the speaker in the poem relives a special time in youth when two people shared a memorable night full of talking over life’s deepest subjects, walking along the nighttime thoroughfares, enjoying the swaying of music in the night, the scent of lilacs dripping with the gentle rain, and the inner warmth of exploring life’s mysteries with that one person whose presence turns prosaic activity into poetic intimacy.

Text
1 – I
2 – II
3 – III
4 – IV
5 – V
6 – VI

Vocal Range
A 2  :  F4

Duration
33′ 00″

Vocal Tessitura
F 3  :  D 4

Year of Composition
2020

First Performance
May 18, 2021
online

First Performers
Randall Scarlata, baritone
Laura Ward, piano