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Catalog: Song Information: Page 3 of 83Please keep this site alive by contributing song listings and other information to the catalog. See the bottom of every catalog page for how. "A Kind of Good-bye"
This entry contributed by Andy Vores around 11/22/98 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: Duration 2:50 Dark and urgent -- increasingly dangerous This entry contributed by Andy Vores around 11/22/98. The contributor(s) composed the song. "À la promenade (c. 1919)"Song 2 (extractable) from set Trois fêtes galantes de Verlaine
This entry contributed by Benjamin René around 2/19/99
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Initial marking: Modérément lent. 4 pages, approximately 3 min.
Recordings: Not performed See Sorabji: A Critical Celebration (Biographies) This entry contributed by Benjamin René around 2/19/99. The contributor(s) looked over the song. "A Letter to My Daughter"Song 3 (not extractable) from set Daughters
This entry contributed by Lori Laitman around 10/5/99
Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: eighth = 104 to begin the song. The largest of the three songs in the cycle. Delicate and moving. Rhythmically tricky in several spots. Several sections of the songs, changing texture and tempo, might give the song the feel almost of a mini-cantata,except that the transitions are smooth and rhythmic patterns grow organically from what comes before. Text Comments: My mother walked softly round her silent house while images faded from darkening mirrors, and the gray ash of fear fell/ She knew there would be no return as I know/ Your childhood is sealed forever a ship in a stoppered bottle/ Now you travel strange roads sleep in strange beds and your dreams are the dreams of a stranger/ Your life speaks with a different tongue/ Memories grow transparent/ I search for your essence in hastily scrawled letters and recoil from the apprehension of your total absence/ The wind that sweeps over sea and over land effaces all trace marks--it measures the distance between us--and distance takes many forms of space and time/ Heart, mind and darkness/ So I shall light a lamp in my window every night, I shall light a lamp in my window every night to comfort myself and also to guide you safely home. This entry contributed by G&K around 10/5/99. The contributor(s) looked over the song. "A Packet for Emile and Bill"
This entry contributed by John Eaton around 3/20/99
Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: 12'. Premiered by Nelda Nelson and Eric Mandat at Mandel Hall, Chicago, 5/29/92 Text Comments:
I This entry contributed by John Eaton around 3/20/99. The contributor(s) composed the song. "A Polish Quarter, Paris: Dimly Lit"Song 9 (extractable) from set Ladies of Their Nights and Days
This entry contributed by G&K around 10/16/98 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: A Polish woman recounts her role in the Holocaust; stark, simple, very intense. Duration 3:05 Text Comments: Beginning of lyrics: "Before the war there was a Jewish woman worked for my father. We became lovers quite by accident. Maybe I loved her... maybe not. No one has known. I hadn't thought of it until this instant. When the Nazis came, they searched all the houses for the Jews." [more] [ed.: surprising, disturbing conclusion to text] This entry contributed by Richard Pearson Thomas around 10/16/98. The contributor(s) composed the song. "A Sight in Camp"Song 7 (extractable) from set We Happy Few
This entry contributed by G&K around 1/11/99 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: Lento e misterioso. Text Comments: A sight in camp in the daybreak gray and dim, As from my tent I emerge so early sleepless, As slow I walk in the cool fresh air the path near by the hospital tent, Three forms I see on stretcher lying, brought out there untended lying, Over each the blanket spread, ample brownish woolen blanket, Gray and heavy blanket, folding, covering all. Curious I halt and silent stand, Then with light fingers I from the face of the nearest the first just lift the blanket; Who are you elderly man so gaunt and grim with well-gray'd hair and flesh all sunken about the eyes? Who are you? Who are you? who are you my dear comrade? Then to the second I step and who are you my child and darling? Who are you, you sweet boy with cheeks yet blooming? Then to the third--a face nor child nor old, very calm, as of beautiful yellow-white ivory; Young man I think I know you--I think this is the face of the Christ himself, Dead and divine and brother of all, and here again he lies. This entry contributed by G&K around 1/11/99. The contributor(s) looked over the song. "A sight in camp in the daybreak gray and dim"Song 3 (not extractable) from set Drum Taps
This entry contributed by G&K around 12/9/98 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: to be annotated by composer Text Comments: A sight in camp in the daybreak gray and dim, As from my tent I emerge so early sleepless, As slow I walk in the cool fresh air the path near by the hospital tent, Three forms I see on stretcher lying, brought out there untended lying, Over each the blanket spread, ample brownish woolen blanket, Gray and heavy blanket, folding, covering all. Curious I halt and silent stand, Then with light fingers I from the face of the nearest the first just lift the blanket; Who are you elderly man so gaunt and grim with well-gray'd hair and flesh all sunken about the eyes? Who are you? Who are you? who are you my dear comrade? Then to the second I step and who are you my child and darling? Who are you, you sweet boy with cheeks yet blooming? Then to the third--a face nor child nor old, very calm, as of beautiful yellow-white ivory; Young man I think I know you--I think this is the face of the Christ himself, Dead and divine and brother of all, and here again he lies. This entry contributed by G&K around 12/9/98. The contributor(s) looked over the song. "A Spirit Haunts the Year's Last Hours"Song 5 (extractable) from set Travelling Through the Dark
This entry contributed by Andy Vores around 11/22/98 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: Duration 1:45 Slow, hot-house atmosphere, heavy, decadent. This entry contributed by Andy Vores around 11/22/98. The contributor(s) composed the song. Please contribute to the catalog
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