The first performance of Spin, Span, Spun took place at The DiMenna Center for Classical Music’s Cary Hall, New York, on July 25, 2023, with Brad Lubman conducting the Orchestra of St. Luke’s. Approximate performance time is thirteen minutes.

Spin, Span, Spun, by American composer Molly Herron, was commissioned by the Orchestra of St. Luke’s for the 2023 DeGaetano Composer’s Institute. Brad Lubman conducted the work’s July 25, 2023 premiere at the DiMenna Center for Classical Music.

When I first encountered the poems of Jean Gallagher, I immediately felt a resonance with my own work. While writing in a thoroughly modern voice, Gallagher engages with (or as she would say, collides with) old stories and artifacts (often quite old, as with her poem “To Noah, from Wife, Some Years After”). I see my work too as a collision between old compositional ideas (such as those of Vivaldi and Haydn) and my contemporary ears. In the case of “Spin, Span, Spun” I am colliding with Gallagher's motion-filled poem “Spin” as well.

—Molly Herron

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