PIANO LESSONS

PIANO LESSONS
6 Songs for Tenor and Piano
on Poems by Billy Collins

Publisher
E. C. Schirmer Music Company

Catalog Number
9152

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Description
PIANO LESSONS is a song cycle setting of the six poems written under the umbrella title “Piano Lessons” by American poet Billy Collins. The poems offer gentle, colorful, and playful glimpses into a narrator’s past experiences taking piano lessons, memorable reminders of so many readers’ personal experiences with piano lessons, especially taken in childhood, as well as possessing magical imagery that turns something prosaic like the study of piano into something profound that goes beyond the instrument itself.

Text
1 – My Teacher Lies On The Floor
2 – Every Scale Has A Shape
3 – Mother Of The Chords
4 – Doing My Scales
5 – Learning To Play
6 – I Think About The Piano

Vocal Range
D 4  :  A 5

Duration
15′ 00″

Vocal Tessitura
G 4  :  D 5

Year of Composition
2018

First Performance
October 2, 2021
Lyric Fest
The Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

First Performers
Andrew Fuchs, tenor
Laura Ward, piano