Vivian Fine

 

Compositions

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Four Lyric Pieces for Voice and Piano
(also known as Four Lyric Songs)


year

1939


duration

10 ¾ minutes


instrumentation

Mezzo-soprano and piano


text

Emily Dickinson, James Joyce, Anonymous, John Keats


songs
  1. The Riddle (Dickinson) (score is missing)
  2. A Flower Given to My Daughter (Joyce)
  3. Adios, Bilbadito (anon.)
  4. To one who has been long in city pent (Keats)

program notes

There is no record of any performance of this set of songs except for the third song, “Adios, Bilbadito,” which was part of They Too Are Exiles, a ballet Fine wrote for Hanya Holm in 1939.