A Garret of Old Playthings
by Elizabeth Alexander
Soprano Voice - Sheet Music

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Soprano voice and piano - medium

SKU: SF.SEA-028-00

Composed by Elizabeth Alexander. Duration 6 minutes. Published by Seafarer Press (SF.SEA-028-00).

Text: Carl Sandburg.

I wrote these five Sandburg songs for my friend Janet Youngdahl in 1982, when we were both undergraduates at The College of Wooster. The set is framed by two reminiscences, Upstairs and I Sang, with the shadowy accompaniment texture reflecting the blurred outlines of memory. The middle song, Changing Light Winds, layers the soprano's linear serenity over the piano's restless waves of sound. Sandburg's wry wit is evident in God is No Gentleman and Spring Grass, which are as mischievous and irregular musically as they are poetically. Soprano range: d'-a".