- Title
- Alone
- For
- voice and piano
- Year Composed
- 1922
- ARCO Number(s)
- 3-B.2
- Category
- Vocal
- Duration
- 2'
- Text Information
- based on an Arabic text by John Duncan
- Premiere
- World: New York, December 4th, 1985 (Jan DeGaetani and Gilbert Kalish)
- Related Persons
- E. Powys Mathers (translator)
- John Duncan (text author)
- Publisher
- Boosey & Hawkes
- Publishing Status
- Published (in Four Early Songs (2000))
- In Collections
- Member Of
- Four Early Songs (2000) (#4 in Containing Work)
- Container Siblings
Program Note
As a young man, Copland had an intellectual friend, Aaron Schaffer, who was a poet. Copland set three of his poems to music: Night, A Summer Vacation, and My Heart is in the East. Among Copland's earliest pieces, these short songs are traditional in style with occasional touches of Debussy and Ravel, the "modern" music of the times. The fourth song in the grouping is a two-page setting of a poem by John Duncan, titled Alone. It was discovered in Copland's files by Vivian Perlis and premiered by Jan DeGaetani.
- Author
- Vivian Perlis
- Year
- 1998