Spring

Song TitleSpring (Search)
Composer(s):Jake Heggie
Composer Underrepresented GroupLGBTQ+ (Search)
Author(s):Edna St. Vincent Millay
Author Underrepresented GroupWoman (Search)
Keyword(s) & Features: Addressee: April; April; Babbling; Beauty; Bleak; Brains; Crocuses; Cups; Death; Despair; Earth; Empty; Flowers; Futility; Good; Hills; Hot; Humans; Idiots; Knowing; Leaves; Life; Maggots; Meaning; Meaninglessness; Metaphor: Life as Empty Cup; Nature; Necks; Nothing; Observing; Opening; Ophelia; Personification: April; Personification: Spring; Pessimism; Quieting; Returning; Smells; Spikes; Spring; Stairs; Sticky; Strewing; Sun; Underground
First LineTo what purpose, April, do you return again? (Search)
Average Duration3:30 (Search)
Year of composition 1999 (Search)
Link to English Text Onlinehttps://songofamerica.net/song/spring-7/
Larger WorkSongs and Sonnets to Ophelia (Search)
Original LanguageEnglish (Search)
Audio Source https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDUz-iJ8wZA
Catalog DesignationNo. 4 (Search)
Voice part suggested by composerHigh voice
Premiered ByPeggy Kriha-Dye (Search)
NotesPremiered May 9, 1999, Old First Church, San Francisco; Peggy Kriha-Dye, soprano; Jake Heggie, piano (Search)
ContributorGTM (Search)
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