Tuesday, May 03, 2011

Poetic Obituaries: In 1983, [Peter] Serkin premiered [Peter] Lieberson's

Piano Concerto No. 1 with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, which then commissioned three more works from him, including the 2010 "Songs of Love and Sorrow" for baritone, to poems by Pablo Neruda.

Lieberson was especially drawn to vocal music in recent years, writing songs for Hunt Lieberson to poems by Neruda and Rainer Maria Rilke.

from Los Angeles Times: Peter Lieberson dies at 64; American composer

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