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Balloonman

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Composer: Anne Neikirk

Duration: 6:30

Scoring: Tenor Saxophone and Electronics

Materials: score (8.5 x 11) and audio file (WAV)
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Program Note

Balloonman is based on the poem In Just- by E. E. Cummings. The saxophone melody is derived from a recording of Cummings reading the poem. Cummings recites with a lyrical, lilting quality. I transcribed his voice as closely as possible into a pitched melody. The electronics consist of manipulations of the recording as well as motivic development of the transcription. E. E. Cummings’s voice is gradually presented in various relationships with the saxophone, and in the end the poem is finally heard in its original form with the saxophone in imitation.

​— Anne Neikirk
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Text

in Just- 
spring          when the world is mud- 
luscious the little 
lame balloonman 

whistles          far          and wee 

and eddieandbill come 
running from marbles and 
piracies and it's 
spring 

when the world is puddle-wonderful 

the queer 
old balloonman whistles 
far          and             wee 
and bettyandisbel come dancing 

from hop-scotch and jump-rope and 

it's 
spring 
and 

         the 

                  goat-footed 

balloonMan          whistles 
far 
and 
wee 
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"in Just-" from COMPLETE POEMS: 1904-1962, by E. E. Cummings, Edited by George J. Firmage, is used with permission of Liveright Publishing Corporation.  Copyright 1923, 1951, 1991 by the Trustees for the E. E. Cummings Trust. Copyright (c) 1976 by George James Firmage.

Reproduction Notice:
This program note may be freely reproduced in concert programs, provided that proper credit is given to the composer.
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