immer wieder (2015)

solo soprano with or without ensemble

or in version for solo violin and version for cello/tuba duo

4 minutes

for Stephanie Aston

dedicated to Luke Storm and Ashley Walters

version for solo soprano (for Stephanie Aston)

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version for soprano with clarinet, trombone, cello, and piano (for gnarwhallaby)

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version for cello and tuba (for Ashley Walters and Luke Storm)

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version for solo violin (for Mark Menzies)

Program Note:

The solo soprano version of this piece was composed to be performed during the wedding ceremony of our friends Ashley Walters and Luke Storm.  The text, by Rainer Maria Rilke, was chosen by Luke and Ashley and is sung in German.

 

[Translated by Nicholas Deyoe]

Again and again whether or not we know the landscape of love

And the small churchyard with its ringing names

And the terrible canyon of secrets in which the others end:

 

Again and again, we meet outside under the old trees,

Keeping ourselves always amidst the flowers, beneath the heavens.