Dark Spring
Song cycle: The Flower On The Mountainside; The Spirit; Scissors, Don’t Cut Away; You Know This
2011 | tenor/piano
Four songs, setting Motets I, XVI, XI and XVIII by Eugenio Montale, in translation by Dana Gioia.
Composed for the British tenor Chris Elliott and the Fondazione Spinola in Genoa, Italy, in honor of Dana Gioia's 60th birthday.