A Letter to Marianne Moore (from Longing for Home) – Carol Barnett

Composer: Carol Barnett Text by: Eugene McCarthy, Instrumentation baritone, piano Duration: approx. 3'15" Date Written:  2018 Composer’s note: Longing for Home is a song cycle written to celebrate Source Song Festival’s fifth season. The texts all reference homecoming in various ways – the enduring wish to return to a place remembered with love and longing, as well as the uncertainty, the impossibility of doing so. “A Letter to Marianne Moore - Eugene McCarthy’s fanciful invitation to Marianne Moore, who died in 1972, references several familiar landmarks of the city of which she was a long-time resident. The boats, the piers, the ferry, the bridges, the gargoyles and the lions at the New York Public Library all afford opportunities for sonic pictures – horns, still waters or ripples, and those library lions processing down the street. Eugene McCarthy (1916-2005) was an American politician, poet, and long-time Congressman from Minnesota.  The full cycle can be found here: https://opusi