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Found Postcards

songs for soprano and pianoNEW

  • Year

    2007
  • Duration

    08:00
  • Level

    Advanced
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Movements:

1. To Miss Mary M. Burke, Sparta WI (1909)
2. To Mr. Walter Estes, New Gloucester ME (1937)
3. To Charlie, May 2 (1911)
4. To Mrs. Leander Holdridge Harwick, Chenango Co. NY (1909)

A collection of songs setting selections from 40 abandoned postcards discovered and compiled by playwright Gary Winter. Found over years of Gary’s antique-store and used-bookseller browsing, the brief, sometimes enigmatic messages in these postcards are forever frozen in time, and they offer a curious glimpse into capricious sentiments of sweetness, disappointment, sorrow, playfulness, and wonder.

(2019) New song to complete the set: To Charlie, May 2 (1911)

Genres:   New WorksVocal

Subgenres:   ChamberSong


Recent Performances

  • February 19, 2024 - Byron Jones & Alexander Bernstein at Goodson Recital Hall, Winchester VA.
  • February 19, 2019 - Byron Jones, tenor | Karen Walker, piano at Goodson Recital Hall, Shenandoah Conservatory, Winchester VA. World Premiere of "Dear Charlie," a new song for the set
  • July 31, 2013 - Doreen Fryling, soprano & Timothy Plambeck, piano at Interlochen Arts Camp, The Shed.