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Composed by Christopher Healey

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Piano: Corey Sinclair
Soprano: Marielle Allan

Original Text:
When death comes and whispers to me,
"Thy days are ended,"
let me say to him, "I have lived in love
and not in mere time."
He will ask, "Will thy songs remain?"
I shall say, "I know not, but this I know
that often when I sang I found my eternity."

From Tagore Rabindranath's 'Fireflies'

Text as set:
"Thy days are ended,"
"Will thy songs remain?"
let me say "I have lived in love."

St Tagore's Cathedral - Thy Days

Performed by members from the Hartford Independent Chamber Orchestra

Topography

Sung by Charity Clark with accompanist Stephen Scarlato

Based on the poem "Bivouac on a Mountain Side" by Walt Whitman:

I see before me now a traveling army halting, 
Below a fertile valley spread, with barns and the orchards of 
summer, 
Behind, the terraced sides of a mountain, abrupt, in places rising 
high, 
Broken, with rocks, with clinging cedars, with tall shapes dingily 
seen, 
The numerous camp-fires scatter'd near and far, some away up on the 
mountain, 
The shadowy forms of men and horses, looming, large-sized, 
flickering, 
And over all the sky-the sky! far, far out of reach, studded, 
breaking out, the eternal stars.

Bivouac on a Mountain Side

An excerpt from "Piano Trio" by Elizabeth Younan (2018). Performed by Jenny Chen (piano), William Tsutomu Copeland (violin), and Francis Carr (cello), at Field Concert Hall, the Curtis Institute of Music, 12/12/18.

St Tagore's Cathedral - Thy Days

Chris Healey - Composer

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