From the Song of Songs

  
    Composed in:
    1988
  
    Text by:
    translation by Marcia Falk
  
    Instrumentation:
    Soprano & Piano
  
    Vocal Range:
    C4-Bb5
  
    Premiered by:
    Delcina Stevenson, soprano

		Tania Agins, piano

		(song 3)

		Dale Wendell, soprano

		Gary Gray, piano

		(complete)
  
    Publisher:
    C. Swigart Music

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Program Notes

My love affair with Marcia Falk's beautiful translation of The Song of Songs began in 1979, when I set Turning to him, who meets me with desire… for my friends, Delcina Stevenson, soprano, and Tania Agins, piano. In 1988, I set an additional three of the poems for a UCLA’s Design for Sharing event, at which the whole set of four songs was premiered by Dale Wendel Franzen and Gray Gray. I wrote an additional set of four songs for mezzo-soprano and piano in 1992 for a Victoria Fringe Festival stage piece by Randy Smith, for which all eight songs were performed.

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A UCLA performance in 1989 by Kari Windingstadt, soprano, and Antoinette Perry, piano