Sonnets for Baritone and Orchestra

1976

10 minutes

2222, 2420, Timp, perc (piatti, sus. cymb, sandpaper blocks, glockenspiel, vibraphone, marimba), strings

John Keats

Sage City Symphony, Bennington, Vermont

December 5, 1976, Sage City Symphony, Bennington College, North Bennington, Vermont, Louis Calabro, conductor, Wayne Dalton, baritone

1. To one who has been long in city pent
2. On the Sea
3. To a Cat

….The music is easily accesible…and the performers must have enjoyed her colorful orchestration, especially ‘To a Cat.’ Her ease and freedom in writing for a large ensemble are indicative of an experienced composer, one who has evolved from the earlier use of the orchestra as a woodwind, brass, and string choirs…to a fluid mixing and contrasting of instruments as used in the Sonnets.

–Heidi Von Gunden, The Music of Vivian Fine, Scarecrow Press, 1999