Winter Morning Walks

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Winter Morning Walks is a Pulitzer Prize-winning song cycle by composer Maria Schneider that blends jazz orchestra with classical and vocal elements to set Ted Kooser’s poetry to music.

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Winter Morning Walks canonical 1
Winter Morning Walks (album) 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf musical composition
song cycle
awardReceived Pulitzer Prize for Music
basedOn poetry by Ted Kooser
composer Maria Schneider
countryOfOrigin United States
criticalReception widely acclaimed by critics
featuresPoet Ted Kooser
firstPerformanceDate 2013
hasAward Grammy Award for Best Classical Vocal Solo (for the album)
Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Classical Composition (for the album’s other work)
hasGenre classical music
contemporary classical
jazz
jazz orchestra
hasInstrumentation brass
jazz orchestra
rhythm section
string quartet
voice
woodwinds
hasLyricist Ted Kooser
hasPart settings of Ted Kooser poems
song cycle movements
hasStyle fusion of jazz and classical elements
hasTheme daily life
healing
memory
nature
hasVocalType soprano
incorporates vocal music
inspiredBy Ted Kooser’s winter morning walks during cancer recovery
language English
notableWorkOf Maria Schneider
partOf contemporary American art song repertoire
performer Dawn Upshaw
Maria Schneider Orchestra
chamber ensemble
publisher ArtistShare
recordedAs Winter Morning Walks (album)
recordLabel ArtistShare

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Maria Schneider notableWork Winter Morning Walks
Winter Morning Walks recordedAs Winter Morning Walks (album)
linked to: Winter Morning Walks