• Yehudi Wyner
  • The Second Madrigal: Voices of Women (1999)

  • Associated Music Publishers Inc (World)
  • fl, ob, cl, bn, hn, perc, 2vn, va, vc, db
  • Soprano
  • 26 min

Programme Note

Movements:
I. Getting Up in Winter (Emperor Ch'ien-wen of Liang)
II. In the Morning (Steve Kowit)
III. Morning (Chu Shu Chen)
IV. When He Pressed His Lips (Steve Kowit)
V. The Second Madrigal (Anna Swir)
VI. Thank You, My Fate (Anna Swir)
VII. Cosmetics Do No Good (Steve Kowit)
VIII. The Greatest Love (Anna Swir)
IX. Hopelessness (Li Ch'ing-chao)
X. Question (May Swenson)

Texts from A Book of Luminous Things, an international anthology of poetry edited by Czeslaw Milosz.

Commissioned by 20th Century Unlimited, Santa Fe.




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The Second Madrigal: Voices of Women: I. Getting Up In Winter
The Second Madrigal: Voices of Women: II. In the Morning
The Second Madrigal: Voices of Women: III. Morning
The Second Madrigal: Voices of Women: IV. When He Pressed His Lips
The Second Madrigal: Voices of Women: V. the Second Madrigal
The Second Madrigal: Voices of Women: VI. Thank You My Fate
The Second Madrigal: Voices of Women: VII. Cosmetis Do No Good
The Second Madrigal: Voices of Women: VIII. the Greatest Love
The Second Madrigal: Voices of Women: IX. Hopelessness
The Second Madrigal: Voices of Women: X. Question

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