Stephen Halloran - The Flowerburgers - Part 4/9 (1998)

Stephen Halloran, composer
Jennifer Elowsky-Fox, piano

The Galilee Hitch-Hiker
Nine Pieces for Piano
Part 1: The Galilee Hitch-Hiker
Part 2: The American Hotel
Part 3: 1939
Part 4: The Flowerburgers (see below)
Part 5: The Hour of Eternity
Part 6: Salvador Dali
Part 7: A Baseball Game
Part 8: Insane Asylum
Part 9: My Insect Funeral
These piano pieces were composed after the poems of Richard Brautigan. This set of poems, The Galilee Hitch-Hiker, is contained in a still larger work, The Pill versus the Springhill Mine Disaster. The piano pieces are intended to be performed as a set, with or without narration - between each work or at the onset. The work was commissioned by Jennifer Elowsky-Fox and was released on a compact disk entitled, Pictures and Images released by ShaderGator Records at www.madeintheshade.com

The Flowerburgers
Part 4

Baudelaire opened
up a hamburger stand
in San Francisco,
but he put flowers
between the buns.
People would come in
and say, "Give me a
hamburger with plenty
of onions on it."
Baudelaire would give
them a flowerburger
instead and the people
would say, "What kind
of a hamburger stand
is this?"

Copyright 1998 by Stephen Halloran.com

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