{"id":7044,"date":"2026-07-06T07:02:38","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T12:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=7044"},"modified":"2026-07-06T07:02:38","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T12:02:38","slug":"composer-sets-updike-poems-to-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2026\/07\/06\/composer-sets-updike-poems-to-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Composer sets Updike poems to music"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>In 2003, Paul Salerni, a music professor at Lehigh University, set five poems written by John Updike to music composed for soprano and viola. His composition, Flora, <\/em>incorporates Updike’s “Query,” “Spring Song,” “Bindweed,” “Natural Question,” and “Sunflower.”<\/p>\n

Here is a link to a site<\/a> where you can click on each of the five poem titles and be taken to a page that features the poem reproduced in total and also a link that you can click on to hear the song, sung by soprano Debra Field.<\/p>\n

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In 2003, Paul Salerni, a music professor at Lehigh University, set five poems written by John Updike to music composed for soprano and viola. His composition, Flora, incorporates Updike’s “Query,” “Spring Song,” “Bindweed,” “Natural Question,” and “Sunflower.” Here is a … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":818,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,21,70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-performances","category-lost-and-found","category-updike-in-pop-culture"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/818"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7044"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7047,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7044\/revisions\/7047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}