PROGRAM NOTES
When I first read Henry Monroe's "Subway Poems"
I was struck by their power to evoke images familiar to every
New Yorker. As I was reading the poems, I immediately started
to hear the music in my head, and decided to set five of them
to music. The poems depict an array of the unique characters,
in turn tragic, weird or plain crazy, that populate the City's
subway system. What makes the poems fascinating to me is that
they are written in a style rich with the cynical, cranky and
sarcastic humor which is, I believe, one of the necessary assets
for dealing with New York.
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