Poetry Becomes Music
Back in April, WNYC's Morning Edition invited listeners to submit poems on the theme "emergence." The response was tremendous.
Even further back, last March, Morning Edition featured interviews and music with some of the winners of WQXR's Artist Propulsion Lab. These were New York City musicians, chosen by our sister station, to receive support for new works.
Now, a new piece of music ties those two things together.
Opera singer Kara Dugan, an Artist Propulsion Lab winner, has commissioned five, one-minute works for voice and piano by five women composers. They each feature lyrics from poems that listeners submitted to us here on Morning Edition.
It's called, ‘In a New York Minute” and she's premiering it live on Sunday as part of WQXR’s 85th birthday concert. She joined WNYC's Michael Hill for a preview.
