Miller Time

1. One of my favorite pieces of his. When I started studying with him I was working on a Bishop song cycle too. I wasn’t aware that Carter had just finished his and we had picked the same poems! That’s what broke the ice between me and my teacher. We’d start every lesson after that talking about modern poetry, Lowell, Stevens, et al.

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   Robert, who are some of the poets that you have set in your song cycles, or did you write the texts yourself?

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   By the way, the idea of the Jason Eckardt/ Laura Mullen song cycle ‘Undersong’ made me think of the great Elliott Carter/ Elizabeth Bishop song cycle, ‘A Mirror on Which to Dwell’.

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Bishop

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Mullen

3. Robert, who are some of the poets that you have set in your song cycles, or did you write the texts yourself?

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   By the way, the idea of the Jason Eckardt/ Laura Mullen song cycle ‘Undersong’ made me think of the great Elliott Carter/ Elizabeth Bishop song cycle, ‘A Mirror on Which to Dwell’.

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Bishop

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Mullen

4. I wish that I had been fortunate enough to get performances of all of my song
   cycles. At least a third of my works have never seen the light of day.

5. I’d love to have the opportunity to hear these concerts — perhaps most especially the new Jason Eckardt/Laura Mullen song cycle. (I know the Georg Friedich Haas work from its recording.)

   New York City and Boston are highly fortunate to enjoy these outstanding series; and I personally wish the Library of Congress or the new downtown Harman Center for the Arts, in D.C., could import more of them.

6. Any relation to Roberto Sierra?

7. She seems like another Yale-Michigan composer: someone who’s well connected and whose work has a great deal of energy. Interesting, to be sure.

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