7 SONGS FOR BARITONE AND PIANO
on poems by Walter de la Mare, Robert Frost, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Percy Byssche Shelley
PUBLISHER
E. C. Schirmer Music Company
CATALOG NUMBER
8595
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DESCRIPTION
“Winter Windows” is a cycle of songs that each offer a “window” into a different wintry scene. There is, of course, a snow-man, and there are snowflakes and fields piled high in snow drifts, but the piece also reflects the darkness of winter in the loneliness of a bird calling out in the wintry darkness, a gentle lullaby lovingly watching over a babe in the dark of a winter night, and the welcome warmth of a fireside after a day of work out in the winter woods.
TEXTS
1 – Winter Night (Edna St. Vincent Millay)
2 – The Snowflake (Walter de la Mare)
3 – A Song (Percy Bysshe Shelley)
4 – The Snow-Man (Walter de la Mare)
5 – Lully (Walter de la Mare)
6 – Winter Evening (Walter de la Mare)
7 – Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening (Robert Frost)
YEAR OF COMPOSITION
1989
DURATION
18 minutes
COMMISSION
Schubert Club
Saint Paul, Minnesota
DEDICATION
Harold Burton Hall
FIRST PERFORMANCE
February 2, 1990
McKnight Theatre
Saint Paul, Minnesota
David Malis, baritone
Heather MacLaughlin, piano
LISTEN
David Malis, baritone
Heather MacLaughlin, piano
Winter Night
The Snowflake
A Song
The Snow-Man
Lully
Winter Evening
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening