One With the Sparrows

Glory (Prod. By Operation O)

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More (Anna's Song, Track 2)

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KODAK TYPE BEAT

If They Take (I Will Break) [AmtBeats]

It's been a while,
Since they've been gone.
My pride, this lie
Will never go on.
It is so nice
To stop running.
Lie has a price : 
This is falling.

Winter, then Spring (Once again)

Spring Songs
Duration: ca. 20'
Instrumentation: tenor and piano
Performers: American Modern Ensemble - Alok Jumar, tenor; Geoffrey Burleson, piano
Recorded at Opera America's National Opera Center, Marc A. Scorca Hall, New York, NY, USA, June 4, 2019
Publisher: Bill Holab Music: http://billholabmusic.com/store/index.php?keyword=spring%20songs%20-&main_page=advanced_search_result&search_in_description=1
For More Information: https://robertpaterson.com/spring-songs-version-for-tenor-and-piano

I. English Sparrows (Washington Square) (Edna St. Vincent Millay)
II.  April 5, 1974 (Richard Wilbur)
III. Done With (Ann Stanford)
IV. The Widow’s Lament in Springtime (William Carlos Williams)
V. Spring Rain (Sara Teasdale)

PROGRAM NOTES
Spring Songs for tenor and chamber ensemble or piano is my third song cycle celebrating the seasons. As with the first two, Winter Songs for bass-baritone and Summer Songs for soprano, this cycle contains settings of poems by various American poets.

Whereas both Winter Songs and Summer Songs end with scenes in New York City, Spring Songs begins with New York: a setting of English Sparrows (Washington Square) by Edna St. Vincent Millay, a poem about a scene that takes place in the morning in Greenwich Village, a neighborhood in New York City where Millay lived in the early 1900s. The second movement is a setting of April 5, 1974 by Richard Wilbur, a poem Wilbur wrote in honor of Robert Frost’s one-hundredth birthday, and I interpret as being about overcoming self-doubt through wisdom, and about understanding the change of seasons, but also a change of mind. The third movement, Done With by Ann Stanford, I interpret to be about death and rebirth. Stanford symbolizes this by a house being torn down and the ground paved over, the now suffocated plant life yearning to break through. The Widow’s Lament in Springtime, the fourth movement, is a setting of a poem by William Carlos Williams. I interpret this poem as a modernist, pastoral elegy that uses images of nature to lament the death of a loved one. The final movement, a setting of the poem Spring Rain by Sara Teasdale, is about a happy memory of a lover brought about by an evening thunderstorm.

Spring Songs was commissioned by Rick Teller and Kathleen Rogers and was premiered at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall by the American Modern Ensemble, Alok Kumar, tenor, and Geoffrey Burleson, piano.

Spring Songs (Piano/vocal) - IV. The Widow’s Lament in Springtime (William Carlos Williams)

You've got a look that says that you're looking for something,
you've got a walk that says that you're easily led.

Come into my parlor, come in seeking refuge,
got something to tell you.
Come in, be at comfort. Come in fit for sleeping
(good news to sell you).

I think that you would make a fine addition to my collection
of wandering souls and those who somehow lost their way.

Lay you down your burdens,
lay in soothing waters of peace and plenty.
Lay down all your worries, lay down all your anger,
make your mind empty.

I come walking towards you bearing gifts on my feet of clay.
My wisdom enfolds you and my loving hand points the way.

I am your pope, I am your guru, I am your savior.
I am the source of all the answers that you lack.

I'll be your salvation, I'll end all your questions...
your journey's ended.

I'm your destination. I'm your new addiction
(you're undefended).

I come walking towards you, saccharine words and my feet of clay.
I'm just a humble shepherd for wandering souls who've gone astray.
I come slinking towards you, sulfur breath and my feet of clay,
you're transfixed, enraptured, your soul is mine...you can't get away.

You bleed, I feed, my need is to own you
title and deed. Bound to my will and creed.

My claim, I aim to tame you till you're
a pliable thing...so you can kiss my ring.

I'll still your will, I'll kill it with
my bluster and power. I'll make you fumble and cower.

You ache, I take, I'll break you
down to your basic parts...dine on your heavy heart.

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