May Evening in Central Park Sample

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May Evening in Central Park

Lines of lamp-lightSplinter the black water,And all throughThe dim park Are lampsHanging among the trees.But they are only like fire-fliesPricking the darkness,And I lean my body against itAnd spread out my fingersTo let it drift through them.I am a swimmerIn the damp night,Or a birdFloating over the sucking grasses.I am a loverTracking the silver foot-printsOf the moon.I am a young man,In Central Park,With SpringBursting over me.The trees push out their young leaves,Although this is not the country;And I whisper beautiful, hot words,Although I am alone,And a few more stepsWill bring meThe glare and suffocationOf bright streets.

-Amy Lowell

“… the highlight of the year came Nov. 9 with Justin Merritt's Five

Preludes for piano…” -Peter Schimpf, Bloomington

Independent

In 2000 composer Justin Merritt (bn. 1975) was the youngest-ever winner of the ASCAP Foundation/Rudolph Nissim Award for Janus Mask. He is also the winner of a host of other awards including the 2008-09 Copland Award, the 2008 Minnesota Orchestra Composer Institute Prize for River of Blood, and the 2006 Polyphonos Prize

He received his Bachelors from Trinity University and

his Masters and Doctorate from Indiana University. H e s t u d i e d composition with Samuel Adler, Sven-David Sandström, C l a u d e B a k e r, Timothy Kramer, Don F r e u n d , a n d e l e c t ro n i c a n d computer music with Jeffrey Hass. He is currently Assistant Professor of Composition at St. Olaf College. He resides in Northfield, Minnesota with his wife Yuedong and their children Cullen Fang Ouxiang and Molly Fang Qinghe.

“Several times I wrote "Wow!" next to a work being played...”

-Peter Jacobi, Herald Times

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“…demands an audience's

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piece was the standout.”

-Rob Hubbard,

Pioneer Press

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for Chia-wei Lee

May Evening in Central Parkfor baritone & piano

Amy Lowell Justin Merritt

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