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--> | movements = 18 | scoring = | misc = }} ''From the Diary of Sally Hemings'' is a song cycle for voice and piano. The work, commissioned by mezzo-soprano Florence Quivar and Music Accord, is a collaboration between Pulitzer Prize winning composer William Bolcom and playwright Sandra Seaton. After being contacted by Quivar, Bolcom asked Seaton to write entries for a fictional diary kept by Sally Hemings throughout her life. Seaton's text for 18 entries of the imaginary diary were then set to music by Bolcom. == Plot == The work recreates the thoughts and feelings of Sally Hemings throughout her long relationship with Thomas Jefferson by means of fictional diary entries. The 18 songs in this imaginary journal provide an interpretation of the relationship between the two, Hemings officially a slave but also the half-sister of Jefferson's wife, Martha Wayles Jefferson. The songs trace the life of Sally Hemings from her earliest memory, including her recollections of Martha dying from complications following childbirth, to her sojourn in Paris with Jefferson and finally her life with him at Monticello until his death. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「From the Diary of Sally Hemings」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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