At a Dinner Party from Three Amy Levy Songs
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Score title
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At a Dinner Party from Three Amy Levy Songs
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Composer
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Hope Salmonson
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Program note
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I feel such a connection to Levy's writing. These poems are pure and sublunary—a dinner party, a rest taken on a grassy hill, a game of tennis with friends—but have an almost fantastical feeling to them. I was immediately drawn to a connecting theme of queer mundanity, and I wanted to channel the excitement and mixed feelings that love can bring.
Three Amy Levy Songs was premiered by Gabrielle Brochu, mezzo-soprano, and Caitlin Strong, piano at Hope's composition recital on April 10, 2021. The first movement, then called "Beneath the Table," was premiered by Brochu and Strong on March 25, 2019.
Hope Salmonson