LOVESTARS

LOVESTARS
5 Songs for Soprano, Cello, and Piano
on Poems by E. E. Cummings

Publisher
E. C. Schirmer Music Company

Catalog Number
8585

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Description
LOVESTARS is a set of love songs on the poetry of E. E. Cummings, which is at once celebratory of both the spiritual – “love is the every only god” – and physical – “home means that/when the certainly/roof leaks it/’s our(home” – realms that are part of our common human experience of romantic love.

Text
1 – love is the every only god
2 – if the Lovestar grows most big
3 – here’s a little mouse)and
4 – home means that
5 – being to timelessness as it’s to time,

Vocal Range
B-flat 3  :  G 5

Duration
9′ 00″

Vocal Tessitura
E 4  :  C 5

Commission
Women Composers Orchestra
Baltimore, Maryland

First Performance
March 27, 1993
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, Maryland

Year of Composition
1989

First Performers
Pamela Jordan Schiffer, soprano
Lori Barnet, cello
Mark Markham, piano

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Pamela Jordan Schiffer, soprano
Lori Barnet, cello
Mark Markham, piano