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For unison voices and piano
Composition date: May 1965
Genre: Choral
Unison voices with piano
Text: William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Dedication: 'For M.H.'.

Marion (Harewood) Thorpe, née Stein (b. 1926), originally a concert pianist and daughter of Erwin Stein. Married Lord Harewood in 1949 (marriage dissolved 1967).

Notes

Revision of the 1961 song for voice and piano (see Related works). It was printed in the reissue of Classical songs for children, ed. Marion Harewood and Ronald Duncan (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1973), having been first published by Boosey & Hawkes in 1965.

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