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Catalog: Song Information: Page 55 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. "Savior"Song not from a cycle or set
This entry contributed by G&K around 11/10/98
Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: Optional held A5. Most of the song is in a middle tessitura except one phrase (the one with the G5 and the optional A5) that hangs rather high. Adagio. Dynamics overall follow one large crescendo from pp to f (at the high phrase) and then decrescendo back to p. Interesting, expressive piano part (does not look terribly technically demanding) holds forth alone in the middle and end of the song. Text Comments: Full text: Savior, I've no one else to tell and so I'll trouble Thee--I am the one forgot Thee so; Dost Thou remember me? Not for myself I came so far, That were the little load: I brought Thee the Imperial heart I had not strength to hold. The heart I carried in my own Till mine Too heavy be. Yet strangest, heavier since it went Is it too large for thee? This entry contributed by G&K around 11/10/98. The contributor(s) looked over the song. "Scherzo impromptu"Song 4 (extractable) from set Mouvements du coeur
This entry contributed by G&K around 1/20/99 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: Allegrissimo leggiero until the last page, which is suddenly much more slow. 3/8 and 3/4 vie for importance throughout the piece. Musically somewhat challenging. Text Comments:
Promesse au cœur de vos sourires,
Votre nez bouges: vous mentez.
Mais le mensonge est vérité
Sous les astres de votre empire.
La vérité, témérité,
Aux puits des miroirs perd la face,
Surgissez à fleur de vos glaces,
Sortez de vos miroirs hantés.
Vers moi vous avancez de face,
Vous avancez, battant des cils...
Et vous éloignez de profil:
C'est de profil que le temps passe.
Et pas à pas et fil à fil
Montrant et cachant vos visages,
Vous allez de bras en ombrages
Depuis la Seine jusqu'au Nil.
Et vous regardez les nuages
Qui sont l'image de vos cœurs
Changeant de forme et de couleur
Et se dissipant en voyage.
La belle et moi, le bel émoi,
L'un est tout près, l'autre est lointaine,
Miroirs, fondez-vous en fontaine.
Ah! Bel émoi, donnez-la moi! This entry contributed by G&K around 1/20/99. The contributor(s) looked over the song. "Se nel volto (1923)"Song 5 (extractable) from set Cinque sonetti di Michelangiolo Buonarroti
This entry contributed by Benjamin René around 2/20/99
Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments:
8 pages.
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. "Sea Chest"Song 2 (extractable) from set Dove Sta Amore
This entry contributed by G&K around 5/16/99
Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: Marked "Gently rocking". Simple, attractive, haunting. Text Comments: There was a woman loved a man as the man loved the sea. Her thoughts of him were the same as his thoughts of the sea. They made an old sea chest for their belongings together. This entry contributed by G&K around 5/16/99. The contributor(s) looked over the song. "Seascape"Song 3 (extractable) from set On This Island, Op.11
This entry contributed by G&K around 4/10/99 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: fast, agitated piano part. sustained vocal line. Ends tranquil and subdued. This entry contributed by G&K around 4/10/99. The contributor(s) looked over the song. "Second Goddess: Juno Lucina"Song 3 (extractable) from set Household Tales
This entry contributed by Andy Vores around 11/21/98 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: Duration 1:10 The vocal line stays on F4 almost entirely while the piano part is in continuous 16th-notes returning to the opening of the first song to make these first three songs a little unit on their own--a prelude to the real business of the cycle. This entry contributed by Andy Vores around 11/21/98. The contributor(s) composed the song. "Selling Techniques"Song 2 (extractable) from set Two Poems by Nellie Hill
This entry contributed by G&K around 11/28/98 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: to be filled in by the composer in early '99. Text Comments: Beginning of text: "He loves to watch himself standing naked before the mirror doing business on the telephone. Each action is deliberate: he bows and smiles while speaking to his customers as if he's dealing with himself. His minor flaws don't bother him, the pot belly, the baggy chin, he looks right over them to the powerful swagger he's developed, the commanding sweep of his arm. She loves to watch him." [more: she lies in bed and imitates him as he talks.] Recordings: Opus One Records, catalog number 49 (LP only), available from the company at P.O. Box 604, Grenville, ME 04441 This entry contributed by G&K around 11/28/98. The contributor(s) looked over the song. "Seventy-Ninth Street"Song 5 (extractable) from set Cityscapes
This entry contributed by David Wolfson around 11/14/99 Know this song? Add your review! Music Comments: dotted quarter=88, "Bluesy and driving." Requires sustained Gb4, mezzopiano F4 Text Comments: Oh to be young and horny, To be new like the men and women Holding down the sidewalk On seventy-ninth street, When sex pokes you from the inside Like a shy balloon And you try the postures of predators But worship leaks from behind your ears. When the late sun makes your hair hot And your clothes touch your body Like you think a lover would. When the smile you've been waiting for Lights up the world with a cartoon zap! And then you're dizzy and grinning, Running, Slapping mailboxes and Jumping for awnings, Running for home. This entry contributed by G&K around 11/14/99. The contributor(s) looked over the song. Please contribute to the catalog
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