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To My Daughter
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Jocelyn Hagen

Jocelyn Hagen composes music that has been described as “simply magical” (Fanfare Magazine) and “dramatic and deeply moving” (Star Tribune, Minneapolis/St. Paul). She is a pioneer in the field of composition, pushing the expectations of musicians and audiences with large-scale multimedia works, electro-acoustic music, dance, opera, and publishing. Her first forays into composition were via...

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To My Daughter, After a Fight

Jocelyn Hagen

A touching song based on the nature of parental love.

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Medium voice and piano.

This song was commissioned by soprano and voice instructor Joyce Hall Wolfe. The vocal line consists of a limited range, but good breath support is needed at the climax.

Text

Raising you I hold
my character up to the light.
Check the watermark – –
cheap paper, plain and coarse.
How to teach you virtues
I don’t always possess?
The future branches,
a puzzle tree, impossible to climb.

Forgive me: my shouted words
mattered more than the medium.
Before you write your own page,
I ask you to consider mine.

– Anna Evans

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