Billy Collins Suite

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Work Overview

  • Instrumentation: clarinet, cello, piano, narrator

  • Commission: MILT John Bruce Yeh, clarinet, and members of the Lincoln Trio

  • Premiere: May 4, 2008, by Music in the Loft (MILT) Chicago, IL

  • Revision: 2016

  • Duration: 12 minutes


Program Note

Music by Vivian Fung and poetry by Billy Collins.

Setting of three Billy Collins poems:

  • Insomnia

  • The Man in the Man

  • The Willies


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Recorded on the Çedille Records label’s “Billy Collins Suite” — October 2009 release with John Bruce Yeh, cl.; David Cunliffe, cello; Marta Aznavoorian, piano; and Steve Robinson, narrator.


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Cello version

for narrator, clarinet, cello, and piano

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