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Four Songs for Soprano and Organ. Technical level: Medium. Texts from Dick's Letter Writer for Ladies (1884)One hundred times a day our lives are touched by some form of swift, casual communication. It is easy to forget that before the age of the cellphone, e-mail, and text, every inclination toward spontaneous communicationevery impulse to transact some social or commercial businesswas checked by the need to write a letter instead.Dicks Letter Writer for Ladies was a collection of model letters provided to help cope with the nuances of what had become nearly an art form. In the 1880s, even the most mundane exchanges required a command of style which now in the 21st century leaves us gasping. And to judge by the wide array of such books as Dicks Letter Writer for Ladies, left many in the 19th century quite breathless as well.As a composer, I find these letters represent a kind of personal ideal: beautiful in their elaborate formality, comic in their startling frankness. These letters are both touching and amusing (sometimes darkly so), and I have sought to convey both qualities in my songs.
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