Lori Laitman

Compositor

Lori Laitman

Lírico

Thomas Lux

Editora

Enchanted Knickers Music

Gênero

Clássico / Canção

Instrumentação

Piano, Soprano, Mezzo-soprano

Composição para

Solo, Piano de Acompanhamento

Tipo de composição

Partitura piano-vocal

duração

3'0"

idioma

Inglês

Ano de composição

2023

descripção
Years ago, when my daughter Diana Rosenblum was in high school, she introduced me to the poetry of Thomas Lux. As a result, in 2000, I used his poetry to compose my comic song cycle Men With Small Heads.

Now it’s 2023. My daughter has a PhD in music composition from Eastman. She is a fabulous composer, an incredible person, and my joy and inspiration. For her upcoming 40th birthday, I wanted to write her a song. I remembered that I still had some outstanding permissions for other poems by Tom — and it seemed like
A Little Tooth was the perfect choice for the occasion.

The song’s opening rocking accompaniment creates the feeling of a lullaby and the voice enters, joining with this motion. The vocal range expands, culminating in a miniature cadenza. Here the narrator comments on the inevitability of his daughter’s growth, before amusingly imagining her future life events. A slower, sweetly harmonic section mirrors the narrator’s contentment. The voice again rises to a mini-cadenza (mirroring the first), before returning to original rocking motif.

data de postagem

09.04.2024