Not in a silver casket cool with pearls

Song TitleNot in a silver casket cool with pearls (Search)
Composer(s):Jake Heggie
Composer Underrepresented GroupLGBTQ+ (Search)
Author(s):Edna St. Vincent Millay
Author Underrepresented GroupWoman (Search)
Keyword(s) & Features: Apples; Blue; Brains; Bringing; Calling; Caskets; Children; Cool; Corundum; Cowslips; Drops; Faithfulness; Fashions; Generosity; Girls; Giving; Hands; Hats; Hurting; Keys; Knots; Legends; Locked; Longing; Looking; Love; Mischief; Multiple Languages; Open; Ophelia; Pearls; Plain; Power of Love; Red; Rich; Rings; Secret; Semper Fidelis; Silver; Skirts; Sonnet; Springs; Swinging; Unhidden; Wishing; Withholding; Working
First LineNot in a silver cool casket with pearls (Search)
Average Duration2:15 (Search)
Year of composition 1999 (Search)
Link to English Text Onlinehttps://songofamerica.net/song/not-in-a-silver-casket/
Larger WorkSongs and Sonnets to Ophelia (Search)
Original LanguageEnglish (Search)
Audio Source https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1LrJQSzC7s
Catalog DesignationNo. 3 (Search)
Voice part suggested by composerHigh voice
Range: Eb4 - B5 (Search)
Original KeyC Major (Search)
Premiered ByPeggy Kriha-Dye (Search)
NotesPremiered May 9, 1999, Old First Church, San Francisco; Peggy Kriha-Dye, soprano; Jake Heggie, piano (Search)
ContributorGTM , Isabella Wallace (Search)
Contributor Affiliation Georgia Southern University (Search)
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