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Muhly, Nico Far Away Songs
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Commissioned by The Juilliard School for the Alice Tully Vocal Arts Debut Recital in Alice Tully Hall. Far Away Songs is scored for: Soprano String Quartet Piano duration ca. 14 minutes 30 seconds
Sweet Voices Those voices are the sweeter which have fallen forever silent, mournfully resounding only in the heart that sorrows. In dreams the melancholic voices come, timorous and humble, and bring before our feeble memory the precious dead, whom the cold cold earth conceals; for whom the mirthful daybreak never shines, nor springtimes blossom. Melodious voices sigh; and in the soul our life’s first poetry sounds–like music, in the night, that’s far away. Hours of Melancholy
The happy sully Nature. The earth’s a realm of grief. The dawn weeps tears of unknown woe. The orphaned evenings, pallid, grieve. And the soul that is elect sings mournfully. In breezes I hear sighing. In violets I see blame. I feel the rose’s painful life; the meadows filled with cryptic woe. And in the woodland thick a sobbing sounds. Mankind lauds the happy. And poets false extol them. But Nature’s gates are closed to those who, heartless and indifferent, laugh, laugh: strangers in a miserable land.
Voices Imagined voices, and beloved too, of those who died, or of those who are lost unto us like the dead. Sometimes in our dreams they speak to us; sometimes in its thought the mind will hear them. And with their sound for a moment there return sounds from the first poetry of our life– like music, in the night, far off, that fades away. —C. P. Cavafy, trans. Daniel Mendelsohn
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