Lullaby for Natalie

• Corigliano composer Lullaby for Natalie in 2010 for violinist Anne Akiko Meyers. Meyers’ husband had commissioned Corigliano to write it while Meyers was pregnant with the couple’s first child, Natalie.¹
• Anne Akiko Meyers played the premiere of this work, in its original form for violin and piano, on January 30, 2011, at the Rubin Museum in New York. She was joined by pianist Reiko Uchida.²

“After Natalie’s birth, I placed her name in the title, and Anne sent me a video of her playing it for her baby in a crib. The baby, awake at first, was asleep at the end, so either the five-minute lullaby had bored her to sleep or I had lived up to the promise of my title. I will never know.”

John Corigliano³

1. Jane Vial Jaffe, “Lullaby for Natalie,” Parlance Chamber Concerts (2019), accessed August 26, 2021, https://www.parlancechamberconcerts.org/parlance-program-notes/lullaby-for-natalie/.  
2. “Lullaby for Natalie (for violin and piano) (2010),” Wise Music Classical, accessed August 26, 2021, https://www.wisemusicclassical.com/work/46129/Lullaby-for-Natalie-for-violin-and-piano–John-Corigliano/. 
3. Quoted in Jaffe, “Lullaby for Natalie,” Parlance Chamber Concerts.