For Voice and Piano Corigliano's Mr. Tambourine Man: Seven Poems of Bob Dylan was a commission by The Carnegie Hall Corporation for Sylvia McNair and was premiered at her Carnegie Hall recital given March 15 2002with Martin Katz at the piano. Corigliano who had never encountered Dylan's own musical settings of the chosen poems has given us new musical settings of icons of American folk music from the 1960s.
