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- Sarah Kirkland Snider
Everything That Ever Was (2022)
- G Schirmer Inc (World)
Commissioned by Will Liverman and Renée Fleming
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Programme Note
Composer note
Commissioned by baritone Will Liverman and soprano Renée Fleming, Everything That Ever Was sets a poem by former U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith, from her Pulitzer-prize winning collection, Life on Mars. The song imagines a couple negotiating the weight of human history as it relates to their relationship in the present: “Like a wide wake, rippling/Infinitely into the distance, everything/That ever was still is, somewhere/Floating near the surface, nursing/Its hunger for you and me/And the now we’ve named/And made a place of.”
— Sarah Kirkland Snider
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- The Summertime Sounds of Sarah Kirkland Snider
- 12th July 2024
- The music of Sarah Kirkland Snider returns to the Tanglewood and Aspen Music Festivals in 2024.
- Emerson Quartet debuts Sarah Kirkland Snider’s 'Drink the Wild Ayre'
- 26th April 2023
- The iconic Emerson String Quartet is bidding farewell to loving audiences in 2023. To mark their final months of performances, the quartet will unveil Drink the Wild Ayre, a new work by Sarah Kirkland Snider.