MR TAMBOURINE MAN: SEVEN POEMS OF BOB DYLAN FOR VOICE AND PIANO
"SEVEN POEMS OF BOB DYLAN was a
commission by The Carnegie Hall Corporation for Sylvia McNair and was premiered
at her Carnegie Hall recital given March 15, 2002 with Martin Katz at the piano.
John Corigliano, who had never encountered Dylan's own musical settings of the chosen
poems, has given us new musical settings of icons of American folk music from
the 1960s". Read more about it here by John Corigliano here.
The seven poems choosen are: Mr. Tambourine Man, Clothes Line,
Blowin' In The Wind, Masters Of War, All Along The Watchtower, Chimes Of Freedom and Forever Young.
- MUSIC BY JOHN CORIGLIANO, LYRICS BY BOB DYLAN, G.Schirmer, Inc./ Hal Leonard Corporation, 2003.