Letters That You Will Not Get:
Women's Voices From The Great War

for three sopranos, three mezzo-sopranos, and string quintet

To be premiered Spring 2022

The development of Letters That You Will Not Get: Women's Voices From The Great War
received funding from OPERA America's Opera Grants for Female Composers program,
supported by the Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation.

Learn more or support the project here: The American Opera Project

PROGRAM NOTE
Combining powerful contemporary music with excerpts from women’s writings on both sides of the conflict, Letters That You Will Not Get: Women's Voices from the Great War gives voice to American, British, European, Asian, African and Caribbean women affected by WWI through a series of vignettes that share their responses to the war.

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Watch video demos recorded remotely during our workshop July 2020

This piece began as a song cycle,
commissioned by Susan Werbe; written for Opera Cowgirls and Hotel Elefant
for three sopranos, mezzo-soprano, violin, and cello
2018
25 minutes

I. Dear Alice
II. L'Odeur de Mon Pays
III. Women of Europe
IV. Socks
V. The Dancers
VI. Right and Left
VII. Salonika
VIII. Finally
IX. There Will Come Soft Rains

View perusal score



Generous support for the creation of the song cycle version was provided by