Song Cycle for Voice and Ensemble
Dedicated to Joshua Scheid and the CMEtc Players
Duration: ca. 28 min.
Baritone, vln, vla, vcl, cl (doubling bass cl), bsn, hrn, bass tbn
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1. He Would Not Stay For Me, and Who Could Wonder?
-A.E. Housman
2. I Live, I Die, I Burn, I Drown
-Louise Labe
3. Because Your Voice Was at my Side
-James Joyce
4. My Sweet Old Etcetera
-E.E. Cummings
5. May I Feel, Said He
-E.E. Cummings
6. Nights Without Sleep
-Sara Teasdale
7. I Feel Certain I am Going Mad Again
-Virginia Woolf
Written for Joshua Scheid and his colleagues at Boston Conservatory, the piece focuses around a set of poems that explore intimacy and identity in a visceral and personal way.