Vivian Fine

 

Compositions

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The Passionate Shepherd to His Love and Her Reply


year

1938


duration

5 minutes


instrumentation

Women’s chorus (SAA)


text

Christopher Marlowe and Walter Raleigh


première

April 23, 1975, Madison, Wisconsin, Anna Crusis Women’s Choir


program notes

It is typical of her wit--and her instinctive feminism--that Fine should have set not only the Passionate Shepherd's call to his love but also her reply.

—Bea Weir, in Contemporary Composers, Morton and Collins, Ed., Chicago: St. James Press, 1992