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Catalog: Song Information: Page 36 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. "La Dame"Song 2 (extractable) from set Three Apollinaire Songs
This entry contributed by Andy Vores around 11/22/98 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: Duration 1:00 Short, unassuming -- little knocks and taps in the piano part. Text Comments: (Translation) Knock knock He has shut the door The garden lilies are faded Who is that corpse they're carrying off You were just knocking at his door And trot trot Trot little mouse This entry contributed by Andy Vores around 11/22/98. The contributor(s) composed the song. "La dernière fête galante (1941) [The Last Amorous Revel]"Song 3 (extractable) from set Trois poèmes
This entry contributed by Benjamin René around 2/20/99 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments:
Initial marking: Avec afféterie. Quasi "Cooperin", léger et avec une grâce exagérée et minaudière. 5 pages, approximately 4 min.
Recordings: Not recorded. See Sorabji: A Critical Celebration (Biographies) This entry contributed by Benjamin René around 2/20/99. The contributor(s) looked over the song. "La fidélité (1926) [The Fidelity]"Song 3 (extractable) from set Trois poèmes du "Gulistan" de Sa'di
This entry contributed by Benjamin René around 2/20/99 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments:
8 pages, approximately 5 min.
Recordings: Not recorded. See Sorabji: A Critical Celebration (Biographies) This entry contributed by Benjamin René around 2/20/99. The contributor(s) looked over the song. "La jalousie (1926) [The Jealousy]"Song 2 (extractable) from set Trois poèmes du "Gulistan" de Sa'di
This entry contributed by Benjamin René around 2/20/99 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments:
5 pages, approximately 3 min.
Recordings: Not recorded. See Sorabji: A Critical Celebration (Biographies) This entry contributed by Benjamin René around 2/20/99. The contributor(s) looked over the song. "La lampe (1926) [The Lamp]"Song 1 (extractable) from set Trois poèmes du "Gulistan" de Sa'di
This entry contributed by Benjamin René around 2/20/99 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments:
5 pages, approximately 3 min.
Recordings: Not recorded. See Sorabji: A Critical Celebration (Biographies) This entry contributed by Benjamin René around 2/20/99. The contributor(s) looked over the song. "Lacuna"Song not from a cycle or set
This entry contributed by G&K around 9/7/98
Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: For two virtuoso percussionists, playing vibraphone, cymbal, temple blocks, tubular chimes, snare drum, timpani, bass drum, rain stick, marimba, bar chimes, tenor drum, and maybe a few other things I didn't mention. If your percussionists are lazy, overworked, underpaid, or not virtuosic enough maybe you could use four of them rather than two. This piece is challenging to listen to in approximately the same degree that Britten is--that is, beautiful to musicians but maybe less so to the average concert goer. The first part of the piece, a setting of "A Psalm of Life," is stirring and march-like, with a triumphant conclusion; the softer setting of "The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls" is haunting and beautiful from what my ear and piano can approximate of the percussion part. The intervals are mildly challenging; the approach to the high F is well done. Text Comments: The title of the piece, "Lacuna," is defined it the work's title-page as "a break in historical or creative continuity typified by a change in philosophical perspective." The lacuna in this piece is between the first poem, "A Psalm of Life," written in 1838 in Longfellow's youth; and the second poem, "The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls," written in 1880 in the poet's older years. The first poem is a hymn to life's purpose, as shown in this excerpt: "Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. Life is real--Life is earnest--And the grave is not its goal: 'Dust thou art, to dust returnest' Was not spoken of the soul. Not enjoyment and not sorrow, Is our destined end or way; But to act, that each to-morrow Find us farther than today." The poem continues past these three stanzas for another six of similar message, closing with an image of creating "footsteps in the sands of time" that help future travelers with their own journey. The other poem is bleak, and the central image is that, as the tides of time rise and fall, "little waves, with their soft, white hands, Efface the footprints in the sands, And the tide rises, the tide falls." The lacuna of Longfellow's life produced a philosophical change from cheery, in-your-face optimism to sad pessimism, as drawn by the changing images of footprints in sand. How's that for a mini-essay. Recordings: This has been performed, and I imagine Jason has a copy, but no commercial recordings exist, I believe. This entry contributed by G&K around 9/7/98. The contributor(s) rehearsed the song. "Lady Luck"Song 5 (extractable) from set Cabaret Songs: Volume 4
This entry contributed by G&K around 4/27/99 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: Marked "Bright and light", which seems a good description of the music's feel. A quick two pages (probably 45 seconds). Text Comments: What do you like most about yourself? What do I like about myself most? Well, I hate to boast, but I must say I like my luck! Whenever they told me Scram! I'd never slink out low like a hack to the back No! I'd let the door slam! And lo! And shazam! Friendship would suddenly show up, like a telegram. This entry contributed by G&K around 4/27/99. The contributor(s) looked over the song. "Lament (high version)"Song not from a cycle or set
This entry contributed by G&K around 5/16/99 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: Marked "Moderately". Piano part looks particularly involved, with several solo passages. Voice part hangs quite high. Text Comments: Listen, Children: Your father is dead. From his old coats I'll make you little jackets; I'll make you little trousers from his old pants. There'll be in his pockets Things he used to put there, Keys and pennies covered with tobacco; Dan shall have the pennies to save in his bank. Anne shall have the keys to make a pretty noise with. Life must go on, Life must go on, And the dead be forgotten; Life must go on, Though good men die; Anne, eat your breakfast; Dan, take your medicine; Life must go on; I forget just why. This entry contributed by G&K around 5/16/99. The contributor(s) looked over the song. Please contribute to the catalog
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