Burnt Shadows on Broken Mirrors

The Bard Weeps (2023) for vocal sextet SATTBB
Composer: Will Martin
Recording Engineer: Aaron Zimmer
Performers: Kayleigh Sprouse, Emma Tucker, Opal Clyburn-Miller, Will Martin, Christian Schmidt, T.J. Callahan

Text adapted from William Shakespeare, Sonnet 64:

The bard weeps
as he turns his downcast eyes
to the shore
and says:

I have seen by Time's fell hand de-fac'd
the outworn buried age
lofty towers
I see downras'd

When I see the ocean gain 
advantage on the shore
The kingdom of the shore

This thought is
This thought is as
This thought is as death

which cannot choose 
But weep
But weep to have that which it fears to lose

Burnt Shadows on Broken Mirrors

Aaron Zimmer

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