Billy Collins Suite
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
