Spring
Song Title | Spring (Search) |
Composer(s): | Jake Heggie |
Composer Underrepresented Group | LGBTQ+ (Search) |
Author(s): | Edna St. Vincent Millay |
Author Underrepresented Group | Woman (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 Line | To what purpose, April, do you return again? (Search) |
Average Duration | 3:30 (Search) |
Year of composition | 1999 (Search) |
Link to English Text Online | https://songofamerica.net/song/spring-7/ |
Larger Work | Songs and Sonnets to Ophelia (Search) |
Original Language | English (Search) |
Audio Source | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDUz-iJ8wZA |
Catalog Designation | No. 4 (Search) |
Voice part suggested by composer | High voice |
Premiered By | Peggy Kriha-Dye (Search) |
Notes | Premiered May 9, 1999, Old First Church, San Francisco; Peggy Kriha-Dye, soprano; Jake Heggie, piano (Search) |
Contributor | GTM (Search) |