Music Resource Item Type Metadata
Composer
Kander, Susan.
Gender
Female
Work
The Lunch Counter. Verona, NJ: Subito.
1. Jennifer was proposed to last night and she said “Yes!”
2. Frank is still wondering how anyone he loved that hard could get so sick and die?
3. Olivia gets to go out for lunch with Papa: she hasn’t wet the bed for three nights in a row! Grilled Cheese, please!
4. Margaret’s son died in Iraq five months ago. If she could only wrap her arms around him one more time
5. Max has been having matzah ball soup and egg salad on white with black coffee every day since the dawn of time. No one’s heard him speak in years
6. Specs and Shorty gotta be back for Bio at 1:13!
7. Lorraine, the counter waitress, hears everything, both spoken and unspoken.
1. Jennifer was proposed to last night and she said “Yes!”
2. Frank is still wondering how anyone he loved that hard could get so sick and die?
3. Olivia gets to go out for lunch with Papa: she hasn’t wet the bed for three nights in a row! Grilled Cheese, please!
4. Margaret’s son died in Iraq five months ago. If she could only wrap her arms around him one more time
5. Max has been having matzah ball soup and egg salad on white with black coffee every day since the dawn of time. No one’s heard him speak in years
6. Specs and Shorty gotta be back for Bio at 1:13!
7. Lorraine, the counter waitress, hears everything, both spoken and unspoken.
Duration
24 minutes
Description
Composed in 2009, this “musical play in seven movements” was commissioned by Joyce Sogg for David Sogg, and was premiered by him on February 15, 2010. The music is predominantly atonal, with each movement featuring a different motivic idea. The music is challenging, and ascends to D5.
Discography
MSR Classics MS1439 (CD) Christin Schillinger
Date Range of Work
2009