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You give this excess that stops me with its dream? With this road running in front, and the qualm

#UNE FENETRE FULL#

With this full heart that loss is completing? Window, defend myself? Who would I wait for?Īren’t I intact, with this life that’s listening, Where their flight flashing in soft arcs parades Only doves making round arenas in the air, The starry window surrendering to the greedy windowīut here comes the one who hurries, who leans, and stays:Īfter night’s abandonment, it’s this new and heavenlyĪt nothing else in the morning sky, the tender lover staresĪt nothing but the enormous example of the sky himself: Poulin, Jr.įrom the back of the room, the bed, only a pallor spread, Que tu puisses donner ce trop don’t le rêve m’arrête? Ne suis-je intatct, avec cette vie qui êcoute,Īvec ce coeur tout plein que la perte complète?Īvec cette route qui passe devant, et le doute Ou me défendre, fenêtre? Qui attendrais – je? Tu me proposes, fenêtre étrange, d’attendre ĭevrais-je, ô fenêtre, à ton invite me rendre? Où leur vol allumé en douces courbes promène Sauf les colombes qui font dans l’air de rondes arènes,

Rien que lui-même, ce ciel, immense exemple: Rien dans le ciel matinal que la tendre amante contemple, Mais la voici qui accourt, qui se penche, qui reste:Īprès l’abandon de la nuit, cette neuve jeunesse céleste La fenêtre stellaire cédant à la fenêtre avare LISTENĭu fond de la chambre, du lit, ce n’était que pâleur qui sépare The work was commissioned by Singing City to be paired with Arthur Honneger’s King David Oratorio and employs the same instrumentation. As Rilke uses the metaphor of the window to explore other ways of seeing framing life with possibility, mystery, beauty, vastness, joy and longing, Les Fenêtres is a window into a musical world of multi colored sound and song inspired by these evocative poems. The other 3 poems view the world through different frames the ecstasy of a young lover, who having gone through the window, discovers gentle doves on the other side the strange window cautioning the impulsive one to wait a window that transforms into a lyre made of stars that we play with our eyes. In the first poem, we observe a woman in a window as she raises her arms like a tender vase in that instant as we both gain and lose the moment, we feel a sudden éclat – a gesture of brilliant light. Les Fenêtres is set to four poems on the theme of “windows” by Rainer Maria Rilke in the original French.

See preview score pages: LES FENÊTRES Choral excerpt (PDF) PROGRAM NOTE Published by: Self-published, Angelfire PressĬontact Andrea Clearfield for score and parts: Premiere: 5/30/11 Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church, Bryn Mawr, PennsylvaniaĬommissioned by: Singing City with support by John and Sandra Stouffer Scored for: soprano and mezzo soprano soloists, SATB chorus and chamber orchestra Les Fenêtres painting by Louise Clearfield

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