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(for soprano and piano) Published: DAPrint Duration 6' « The five seasons of Saturn |
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Text: Kay K. Maves The Four Seasons of Love I
Lovely Like the leaves beside your hair, Like the grasses in the marsh you love, Your face, as natural and serene, emerges from the landscape, De-lights my afternoon.
II
The gingko tree out-side is touched with gold. All the light of winter afternoons is gathered in this place And in your face I know regret and wondering.
III
Spring comes, as it must I would wish it otherwise I would wish the dark-ness to re-main and spread a-cross the light. No-thing grows with-in With-out the earth is catching life in both her hands Oh Spring, Un-fair to winter in my life.
IV
Yet if I close my eyes, throw back the light, If I spin on pages fragile as the images I bear, I bear this long winter This long winter with its freight of memory and of barren night, This long winter brings an end and a beginning.
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Program notes: The original material for these songs was used in a work for Brass Quintet and Soprano for my good friend Peter Kundsvig about 1978 (premiered by his brass quintet the following year) when I had first come to the College of Charleston. Done a couple of time by students in the interum, I just this year reworked these works into their present form. The text was written by my (then) wife Kay. The songs were composed with the local area (Charleston, South Carolina) in mind. For example: the Ginko Tree in song II across the street fills my living room window yet, and the leaves still turn to gold months ahead of any of the othe local trees.
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