Three E. E. Cummings Songs (2015) 4.5’
This set of songs is based on three beautiful lyric poems of e.e. cummings. 1 “in time of daffodils,” a love song in the old tradition of “flower songs” such as “My love is like a red, red rose” or Herrick’s “Gather ye rosebuds” or Blake’s “The Sunflower.” 2 “once White&Gold,” a very brief meditation on life and mortality. 3. “if you like my poems,” which pictures the poems as servants accompanying the poet’s beloved on her evening walk.
SSAA, unaccompanied
Three lyrical songs set to poems of e.e. cummings.