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| Composer : | Bird, Peter (1951 - ) | ||||
| Instrumentation : | Choral SATB a cappella | ||||
| Style : | Romantic | ||||
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| Lyricist : | Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin | ||||
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| Date : | 2005 | ||||
| Copyright : | Creative Commons-Attribution-ShareAlike | ||||
| Added by peter-bird, 12 Jun 2007 Pushkin describes how thoughts of the inevitability of death intrude into his daily life. By the end, he achieves acceptance, or at least resignation, by visualizing his tomb and himself at rest. This poem is doubly poignant: First, Pushkin actually died young, in a duel to defend the honor of his wife. Second, because Pushkin had difficult relationships with both the government and the orthodox church, his funeral was private and hurried. Following 6 verses set to original melodies, I set the last two verses as solo descants against the traditional hymns ?Holy, Holy, Holy? and ?Eternal Memory.? In Pushkin?s time, the singing of the former might have been permitted even for the heterodox. Source / Web : | Fresh Choral Music Online | | |||
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