THE BURNING HEART IV Songs for Mezzo-Soprano and Piano
Michael-Thomas Foumai
Michael-Thomas Foumai
THE BURNING HEART IV Songs for Mezzo-Soprano and Piano Translated by Kenneth Rexroth 1. Ghost (0:50) 2. Night without end (2:20) 3. Imperceptible (0:30) 4. The man who is gone (1:05) 5. The heart of man (3:15) Program Note The Burning Heart song cycle was composed for the 2012 Staunton Music Festival. The work consists of settings of Japanese love poems (Haiku) translated by Kenneth Rexroth and are in four large volumes, each volume composed for a different voice type and piano. The poems express in very little words, young and mature love, conveying intimacy, sensuality and angst.
Š 2012 Michael-Thomas Foumai (ASCAP). All Rights Reserved. www.michaelfoumai.com mfoumai@umich.edu
1. Others may forget you, but not I. I am haunted by your beautiful ghost. - The Empress Yamatohime 2. Night without end. Loneliness. The wind has driven a maple leaf Against the shoji. I wait, as in the old days, In our secret place, under the full moon. The last bell crickets sing. I found your old love letters, Full of poems you never published. Did it matter? They were only for me. - Marichiko 3. Imperceptible It withers in the world, This flower-like human heart. - Komachi 4. I slept in the past, that will never come again as though it was the present. Around my pillow in my dreams the perfume of orange blossoms floated, like the man who is gone. - Princess Shikish 5. Without changing color in the emptiness of this world of ours, the heart of man fades like a flower. - Komachi
for the Staunton Music Festival
THE BURNING HEART IV Songs for Mezzo-Soprano and Piano Text Translations KENNETH REXROTH
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