Morten Lauridsen - Mid-Winter Songs - 1. Lament for Pasiphaë

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Mid-Winter Songs by Morten Lauridsen is available in print from Opus Music Publishers, Inc., Evanston, Illinois, www opusmusic net.

Lauridsen / The Complete Choral Cycles, sung by Choral Cross-Ties and conducted by Bruce Browne, is ©Freshwater Records. FWCL 105-2



I. Lament for Pasiphaë

Dying sun, shine warm a little longer!
My eye, dazzled with tears, shall dazzle yours,
Conjuring you to shine and not to move.
You, sun, and I all afternoon have laboured
Beneath a dewless and oppressive cloud--
a fleece now gilded with our common grief
That this must be a night without a moon.
Dying sun, shine warm a little longer!

Faithless she was not: she was very woman,
Smiling with dire impartiality,
Sovereign, with heart unmatched, adored of men,
Until Spring's cuckoo with bedraggled plumes
Tempted her pity and her truth betrayed.
Then she who shone for all resigned her being,
And this must be a night without a moon.
Dying sun, shine warm a little longer!

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This setting is dedicated to Paul Salamunovich.
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The Mid-Winter Songs on poems by Robert Graves was commissioned by the University of Southern California on the occasion of its centennial in 1980. It is dedicated to the U.S.C. Chamber Singers, conducted by Rodney Eichenberger, who gave the premiere performance on March 20, 1981. The orchestral score [2 (1 also Picc.) - 1 + E.H. - 1 + B. Cl. - 2, 2 - 1 - 1 - 0, Perc., Pno., Hp., Strings] and parts are available on rental from Peer-Southern, New York.