Sonnets on Love, Rosebuds and Death

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"Sonnets on Love, Rosebuds, and Death" is a set of eight settings of by Dorothy Rudd Moore on the texts of black poets for high voice, violin, piano. It was premiered in 1976 by pianists Warren Wilson and Kelley Wyatt, violinist Sanford Allen, and soprano Miriam Burton, who the set is dedicated to.

Date: 1976Composer: Dorothy Rudd MooreText: Gwendolyn Bennett, Clarissa Scott Delany, Langston Hughes, Arna Bontemps, Countee Cullen

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    1. I Had No Thought of Violets of Late (Poet: Alice Dunbar Nelson)
    2. Joy (Poet: Clarissa Scott Delany)
    3. Some Things Are Very Dear to Me (Poet: Gwendolyn B. Bennett)
    4. He Came in Silvern Armour (Poet: Gwendolyn B. Bennett)
    5. Song for a Dark Girl (Poet: Langston Hughes)
    6. Idolatry (Poet: Arna Bontemps)
    7. Youth Sings a Song of Rosebuds (Poet: Countee Cullen)
    8. Invocation (Poet: Helene Johnson)

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