Touch me
Song record peer reviewed by Editorial Board member: Gregory ZavrackySong Title | Touch me (Search) |
Composer(s): | Tom Cipullo |
Author(s): | Stanley Kunitz |
Author Underrepresented Group | Jewish (Search) |
Keyword(s) & Features: | Afternoon; Aging; Air; Bursting; Children; Creaking; Crickets; Dances; Darling; Desire; Engines; Forty; Gardens; Growing Old; Hearts; Hopefulness; Houses; Kneeling; Late; Leaves; Longing; Love; Machines; Marriage; Marrying; Memories; Metamorphoses; Molting; Music; Night; Outdoors; Passage of Time; Rain; Rekindling of love; Remembering; Reminding; Scattering; Seasons; Shells; Sky; Songs; Summer; Tenuousness; Thrashing; Torn; Touching; Trilling; Vulnerability; Whistling; Wild; Willows; Wind; Windows; Words; Years |
First Line | Summer is late, my heart (Search) |
Average Duration | 4:45 (Search) |
Year of composition | 2001 (Search) |
Link to English Text Online | https://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/unbound/poetry/antholog/kunitz/touchme.htm |
Larger Work | Late Summer (Search) |
Musical Form | Through-composed (Search) |
Original Language | English (Search) |
Score Source | https://www.worldcat.org/title/late-summer-2001/oclc/55492745&referer=brief_results |
Audio Source | https://open.spotify.com/track/1ROzxEEXo4xRXfvr8uFLrX |
Difficulty Level | Masters/YA; Professional (Search) |
Voice part suggested by composer | High voice or Medium-High Voice |
Range: | C4 - Ab5 (Search) |
Original Key | C major (Search) |
Dedicated To | Karen Holvik (Search) |
Premiered By | Karen Holvik (Search) |
Notes | “Summer is late, my heart” is a quotation of one of Kunitz’s earlier poems, “As Flowers Are,” written forty years prior to “Touch Me” around the time of his marriage to his third wife, Elise Asher. (Search) |
Recommended Printed Source | Classical Vocal Reprints (Search) |
Sources Cited | Zavracky, Gregory. “A Guide to Tom Cipullo’s Captivating Song Cycle, Late Summer” https://search.proquest.com/openview/3fe8b2d2705975964c674aab824aab64/1.pdf?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=41612 (Search) |
Contributor | JEM (Search) |