Three poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay for soprano, B-flat clarinet, and cello
When I was asked to set the work of a Greenwich Village poet my reading led me to Edna St. Vincent Millay. A fixture of the Greenwich Village literary scene in the 1920s, Millay wrote witty and sharply intelligent poems that were much admired and widely read. The poems I chose for True Encounters – three short settings for soprano, clarinet, and cello – consider love and lust, aging, and mortality with a wise amalgam of seriousness and irony.
date: 2024
duration: 6:00