Randall Snyder
The Night Dances, for mezzo soprano and piano
Duration: 6'
Solos:
mezzo-soprano
The Night Dances, for mezzo soprano and piano
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Randall Snyder
Mezzosopran (The Night Dances, for mezzo soprano and piano)
Available digitally
Type: Solostimme(n)
Randall Snyder
The Night Dances, for mezzo soprano and piano
Available digitally
Type: Dirigierpartitur
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Work introduction
The Night Dances
A smile fell in the grass.
Irretrievable!
And how will your night dances
Lose themselves. In mathematics?
Such pure leaps and spirals ——
Surely they travel
The world forever, I shall not entirely
Sit emptied of beauties, the gift
Of your small breath, the drenched grass
Smell of your sleeps, lilies, lilies.
Their flesh bears no relation.
Cold folds of ego, the calla,
And the tiger, embellishing itself ——
Spots, and a spread of hot petals.
The comets
Have such a space to cross
Such coldness, forgetfulness.
So your gestures flake off ——
Warm and human, then their pink light
Bleeding and peeling
Through the black amnesias of heaven.
Why am I given
These lamps, these planets
Falling like blessings, like flakes
Six sided, white
On my eyes, my lips, my hair
Touching and melting.