Just after our first child was born, he received a lovely poetry anthology from his godmother. I read to him often from it, and was drawn again and again to the same three poems, all by the 20th Century American Frank O’Hara. I loved their passionate, specific imagery, their playful energy, the irrepressible love of life they expressed. When my friend Lorrene Adams approached me about a commission for her high school chorus, I didn’t think twice about what texts to set. “Oh! Kangaroos, sequins, chocolate sodas! You really are beautiful!”
First Movement text
Second Movement text
Third Movement text
