A Prayer for My Daughter
- For SATB chorus or solo voice and orchestra
- Piano reduction available
- Poem by William Butler Yeats
- Duration: 12 minutes
Orchestration: piccolo, 2 flutes, oboe, English horn, clarinet, bass clarinet, 2 bassoons, contrabassoon, 4 horns, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, 2 percussion, harp, keyboard, strings
Reviews
“A Prayer for My Daughter,’ which packs Yeats’ expansive poem into a terse 11-minute span, is another of Getty’s alluring creations. From its turbulent opening depiction of a howling rainstorm through the poet’s more abstract musings and on to the final evocation of a marriage ceremony, Getty continually finds a musical vein to reflect the shifting character of each of the poem’s eight stanzas.”
Joshua Kosman
SF Gate, 2014
