Winter Sunset
for soprano and chamber ensemble (2016)
excerpt:
for soprano and chamber ensemble (2016)
excerpt:
Hillary LaBonte – soprano, Kenneth Cox – flute, Derek Emch – clarinet, Gunnar Hirthe – bass clarinet, Christopher Murphy – baritone saxophone, Aaron Hynds – tuba, Kathryn Kibbe – viola, Aleksander Tengesdal – cello, Henrique Batista – percussion, Nick Fox and Zachary Nyce – piano, Maria Mercedes Diaz-Garcia – conductor
complete performance posted below
Text: Williams, William Carlos. "Winter Sunset." A Book of Poems: Al Que Quiere! Boston: Four Seas, 1917. 21-22.
Then I raised my head
and stared out over
the blue February waste
to the blue bank of hill
with stars on it
in strings and festoons---
but above that:
one opaque
stone of a cloud
just on the hill
left and right
as far as I could see;
and above that
a red streak, then
icy blue sky!
It was a fearful thing
to come into a man's heart
at that time; that stone
over the little blinking stars
they'd set there.
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