Chamber Music Work of the Day, Installment 37:
"There Is a Flower"
for
Oboe or Soprano Saxophone and Piano
(1980, Arranged 2009)
"There Is a Flower" is an instrumental transcription of what I consider to be my first successful musical composition, Is there a flower (whom, a song for mezzo-soprano and piano set to a text by E. E. Cummings. Follow the next URL to listen to a live performance of this song from my senior recital at the Boston Conservatory of Music which took place in Seully Hall on the 3rd May 1981 performed by mezzo-soprano Allison Twiss O'Neill and pianist Bradley Pennington. The track is located on my website.
I did not secure nor know much about copyright permission to set copyrighted poems to music, neither did the conservatory stress or teach much about this important issue at that time. When I discovered how expensive it was to pay Liveright Publishing Corporation for copyright permission, I filed this song away awaiting the day that Cummings' poem enters the public domain which occurred for the USA in 2019. Until it did, I decided to make the music available as a song without words for instrumentalists, so I arranged it for oboe or soprano saxophone and piano in 2009.
Follow the next URL to view a new high quality synthesized scrolling score music video for "There Is a Flower" of the version for oboe and piano on my YouTube channel which I created to encourage live performances.
Follow the next URL to view a new high quality synthesized scrolling score music video for "There Is a Flower" of the version for soprano saxophone and piano on my YouTube channel which I created to encourage live performances.
"There Is a Flower" is available for licensing from me, and for sale from Sheet Music Plus. Follow the next URL to visit the distributor's product page of the version for oboe and piano for this title.
Follow the next URL to visit the distributor's product page of the version for soprano saxophone and piano for this title.
I hope you enjoy "There Is a Flower"/ "Is there a flower (whom". Thank you for your time and attention.
Stanley M. Hoffman, PhD
Link to my website: https://www.stanleymhoffman.com
Biography Published in Grove Music Online (The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Oxford University Press)
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