Poppy Flower - generously provided by African Diaspora Music Project
| Song Title | Poppy Flower - generously provided by African Diaspora Music Project (Search) |
| Composer(s): | David Baker |
| Composer Underrepresented Group | African-American; POC; Black (Search) |
| Author(s): | Langston Hughes |
| Author Underrepresented Group | African-American; POC; Black (Search) |
| Keyword(s) & Features: | Brevity of Life; Contrast: Day vs. Night; Contrast: Joy vs. Sorrow; Crying; Day; Death; Difference; Dying; Flowers; Laughing; Laughter; Nature; Night; People; Poppies; Sorrow; Wild; Withering |
| First Line | A wild poppy-flower (Search) |
| Year of composition | 1972 (Search) |
| Link to English Text Online | https://www.poetrynook.com/poem/poppy-flower |
| Larger Work | Songs of the Night/Borderline (Search) |
| Author's associated movements or -isms or Groups | Harlem Renaissance (Search) |
| Original Language | English (Search) |
| Catalog Designation | No. 5 (Search) |
| Voice part suggested by composer | Soprano |
| Commissioned By | Rita Sansone (Search) |
| Notes | From a twelve-song cycle "Songs of the Night," whose first and last movements, "Rêve" and "Evening Song," are for solo piano. Eight songs were recorded by the Samuel Coleridge-Taylor String Quartet on the album "Calvary" as "Borderline." This recording excluded the two aforementioned piano movements as well as "Borderline" and "Where Have You Gone?" Information from a list compiled by Indiana Public Media: https://indianapublicmedia.org/static/pdf/baker-compositions.pdf (Search) |
| Other instrumentation and voice | Soprano and string quartet (Search) |
| Sources Cited | African Diaspora Music Project, created by Dr. Louise Toppin (Search) |
| Contributor | Dr. Louise Toppin; GTM (Search) |