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, "RĂªve" 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) |