Songs of Love in Wintertime
by Daryl Jamieson
Songs of Love in Wintertime
Programme Note:
This piece, seven haiku for tenor and piano, was a study in slow, beautiful, wintery music, directly inspired by my initial thoughts of what constitutes a ‘Canadian’ response to winter. At the time I was attempting to analyse the music of several prominent Canadian composers who had written music about winter, trying to find out if they had any common elements; I found that there seemed to be a common treatment of the season among the pieces, one that treated winter as a positive phenomenon, though one to be appreciated at a distance (most of the music was beautiful, delicate and quiet). I wrote this piece, both the words and the music, over three days in November 2003 while attending that year’s Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, and can also be seen as a direct response to the many contemporary composers featured that year who used what I felt were too many notes!
—Daryl Jamieson
Songs of Love in Wintertime by Daryl Jamieson
hibernating together when we rose, we found the blizzard had entombed us: we were elated after the skating we lay down by the fireplace warming each other we spent the winter hibernating together your blonde hair against overcast skies: when I watched you ski: snowblindness creating angels, wearing a snow-white parka, laughing, you disappeared we spent the winter hibernating together but now it is spring
Songs of Love in Wintertime words and music by Daryl Jamieson
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