A Gift

Song TitleA Gift (Search)
Composer(s):Jennifer Higdon
Composer Underrepresented GroupWoman; LGBTQ+ (Search)
Author(s):Amy Lowell
Author Underrepresented GroupWoman; LGBTQ+ (Search)
Keyword(s) & Features: Addressee: Lover; Beautiful; Beloved; Colors; Crushed; Dead; Death; Expression of Love; Filling; Flowers; Gesture of Love; Gifts; Giving; Grass; Jars; Love; Lovers; Luster; Metaphor: Words as Jars; Pleasant; Precious; Quaint; Recommending; Rooms; Scents; Shapes; Shelves; Sweetness; Whole; Words
First LineSee! I give myself to you, (Search)
Year of composition 2013 (Search)
Link to English Text Onlinehttps://poets.org/poem/gift-2
Larger WorkLove Sweet (Search)
Author's associated movements or -isms or GroupsImagism (Search)
Original LanguageEnglish (Search)
Audio Source https://youtu.be/qDsibWuwVVI?t=564
Catalog DesignationNo. 4 (Search)
Voice part suggested by composerSoprano
Premiered ByYungee Rhie (Search)
Commissioned BySongFest (Search)
NotesPremiered June 15, 2014, SongFest 2014, Colburn School, Los Angeles; Yungee Rhie, soprano; Itamar Zorman, violin, cello; Liza Stepanova, piano (Search)
Other instrumentation and voiceviolin, cello, and piano (Search)
ContributorGTM (Search)
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