Tyge Thomas: Disillusion (2025), for soprano voice and piano
Автор: Tyge Thomas
Загружено: 2025-12-12
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Performers:
Alexandra Guerra, voice
Parker Konkle, piano
Text:
Disillusion by John Le Gay Brereton:
When fires have burnt your forest bare and black,
And you are parched and dizzy, and search in vain
For pools in dust unvisited of rain,
And shamble, lost, along a shimmering track,
This is the comfort of the world: “Alack!
So youth’s illusions die, that we may gain
Wisdom and strength to face our lifelong pain,
The truth, from which no man shall turn him back.”
Falter for no such melancholy lies,
For by one holy touch the spirit is healed
To know its treasure of sight and sound and scent;
Veil after veil the earthborn fogs arise,
Star beyond star the heavens are then revealed,
And truth is fair in love’s enlightenment.
"Disillusion" is a text which was written post-WWI, a reaction to the devastating loss which the war brought on. However, I believe its message rings just as true or truer today. The things we love and hold dear are being attacked, and it is becoming harder and harder to love in a hostile world. We must look for truth, when all is being attacked. And we must keep trying to love. Thanks so much to these performers for a beautiful and meaningful collaboration.
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