CAST Colombine – Lisa Kaplan, piano The Harbinger – Nicholas Photinos, cello Harlequin – Timothy Munro, flute; Michael Maccaferri, clarinet; Yvonne Lam, violin Pierrot – Matthew Duvall, percussion
TEXT (after the poetry of Isabella Andreini, 1601) part one 1. death sweet breath 2. love Harlequin: I bind her here in the moonless night I wind her I alone can touch her pain I alone can know my Colombine again Let me eat her Reason: let me swallow every light that blinds her and feast upon the stars that find her (inspired by Sonnet 4)
part two 3. bass drum moon #1 4. comfort 5. my charming murderer: what a charming fatal wound: the charming hurt is quick the charming healing slow I sigh and after I yearn - a delirium more handsome than ever turns his gaze on me then like lightening bolts… so my soul stirs - and heart breaks (after Madrigal 5)
part three 6. bass drum moon #2 7. snare / shiver
part four 8. bass drum moon #3: one thing alone is real
9. night swallows light 10. Colombine my heart come: Colombine my heart come - I desire I love not because your brutal beauty binds me…no, sweet siren I desire I love because there beneath your chest beats my heart and I can’t live without my heart: a desire to live urges me to this - a desire for life Colombine my heart come to wander we two in the light of the moon (after Madrigal 51 and Variations by Théodor de Banville, 1904)
part five 11. she comes undone (finale)