Corigliano's 'Poem in October'

Podcast: Composers Datebook · American Public Media

Opublikowano: 2026-10-25

Synopsis On today’s date in 1970, a new chamber work by American composer John Corigliano received its premiere performance at a concert given by the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the group that had commissioned it. The new piece, Poem in October, was scored for tenor voice and eight instruments and was a setting of poetry by Dylan Thomas, the great Welsh poet who died in 1953. “The thing that most appeals to me is the sound of his words,” he explained. “Phrases from Poem in October like ‘a springful of larks i...