WINTER WINDOWS

WINTER WINDOWS
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. Just as Winter, though, goes on towards a new year, the last song of WINTER WINDOWS – setting Robert Frost’s iconic poem “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” – reminds us that Winter is not an end and that we, like that speaker in Frost’s poem, still have “miles to go before” we sleep.

Text
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)

Vocal Range
A 2  :  F-sharp 4

Duration
18′ 00″

Vocal Tessitura
E 3  :  D 4

Commission
Schubert Club
Saint Paul, Minnesota

First Performance
February 2, 1990
McKnight Theatre
Saint Paul, Minnesota

Year of Composition
1989

First Performers
David Malis, baritone
Heather MacLaughlin, piano