a summer more like a song (2008)
for solo baritone, piano trio | 1:00
by Melissa Dunphy | text by Juliette Lee
About
Composed for Network for New Music's Poetry Project.
This short, light song evokes the frenetic movement of nature in summer, and summer love. Poetry by Juliette Lee.
Lyrics
a summer more like a song
By Juliette Lee
this way! this way!
o skeet shot, o buck.
o laughing penguin cloud.
tremolo airglow, mint string chip
wink termite
this lycra desire, manly man
my dorothea
my charm.
for Dorothea Lasky 4.19.07
Performances
- 23 Nov, 2022: BIPOC Voices at Vancouver Playhouse, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada