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 five 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.
Texts
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,
Year of Composition
1989
Duration
9 minutes
Commission
Women Composers Orchestra
Baltimore, Maryland
Dedication
Pamela Jordan Schiffer
First Performance
March 27, 1993
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, Maryland
Pamela Jordan Schiffer, soprano
Lori Barnet, cello
Mark Markham, piano
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Pamela Jordan Schiffer, soprano
Lori Barnet, cello
Mark Markham, piano
love is the every only god
if the Lovestar grows most big
here’s a little mouse)and
home means that
being to timelessness as it’s to time,
Live Performance
ENSEMBLE FOR THESE TIMES
Nanette McGuinness, soprano
Anne Lerner-Wright, cello
Dale Tsang, piano
Lovestars