Lee Hoiby Vidéos
compositeur américain
- piano
- opéra
- États-Unis
- compositeur ou compositrice
Dernière mise à jour
2024-04-27
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Performed by Bonnie and Michael Jorgensen from Bonnie and Michael's farewell recital. On May 1, 2003, just three weeks after he shipped out, 34-year-old U. S. Army Pfc. Jesse Givens died in Iraq. Givens was parked in a battle tank by the bank of the Euphrates River in Al Habbaniyah. The riverbank gave way, the tank fell into the river, and he drowned. Two weeks before his death, Givens wrote a final letter and mailed it to his wife Melissa, his five-year-old son Dakota (nicknamed ‘Toad’) and his unborn child Carson (nicknamed ‘Bean’). “He called me a week before [his death] and told me he had written the letter, but not to open it unless he died,” Melissa Givens said. Since 2003, the letter has been published in the New York Times and featured in the HBO Documentary Film “The Last Letters Home.” In 2006 the men’s ensemble Cantus commissioned composer Lee Hoiby to write a piece for them. Hoiby received permission from Melissa Givens to set the words of the letter to music. The work was subsequently arranged by the composer for baritone and piano.
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