Letter to Anna by Lisa Bielawa

LISA BIELAWA

for girls chorus

1998

Text by Sigmund Freud

For Sharon Paul and the San Francisco Girls Chorus on their 20th Anniversary, 1998

LISA BIELAWA

Letter to Anna (1998) For Sharon Paul and the San Francisco Girls Chorus on their 20th Anniversary, 1998

for girls chorus DURATION c. 6:00 PERFORMANCE NOTE: The glissandi used throughout the piece should be executed evenly and for the full value of the note. In measures 61-65 and 70-75, the effect of the Soprano 2 line should be that of one continuous descending glissando, passing through the written pitches at the notated times.

From the Letters of Sigmund Freud, to his daughter Anna, July 7, 1908 : Vienna, July seventh, 1908 My dear Anna, Indeed, if I weren't already very impatient to get [there], your letter would make me so. I. . . liked it very much when I was there for the first time in April, when white snow still lay between the clumps of yellow primroses. Strawberries and mushrooms are a very welcome prospect; we are bound to discover some lovely walks in no time. . . .we will read and write and wander about in the woods; if only the Almighty doesn't spoil the summer for us by making it rain all the time, it can be very beautiful. . . .before you have reread this letter several times, [I] will be there, too. Love from your Papa From Hildegard of Bingen's "Ordo Virtutum": Pater, vide, vulnera mea tibi ostendo. [Father, see, I show my wounds to you.] Paternum speculum, aspice. cribe [Mirror of the Father, behold.]

Letter to Anna For Sharon Paul and the San Francisco Girls Chorus on their 20th Anniversary, 1998

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