Daniel Dorff: Nature


Nature for Voice and Piano
Duration: c. 2' Poem by Arshile Gorky. DETAILS PREMIERED by Candace Sassaman and Mary Murphy, University of Pennsylvania, September 29, 1979. PROGRAM NOTES At some point in 1979 while in graduate school, someone (a high school friend?), sent me a postcard with an Arshile Gorky painting on the color side, and a translated Gorky poem or epigram on the non-art side. I liked the words and set them as a short song. I still like the beauty of this song, and for some reason the first two bars of the vocal line appear as an interlude in August Idyll, composed many years later.
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