RANDALL THOMPSON - Choose something like a star

CHOOSE SOMETHING LIKE A STAR
Música: Randall Thompson (1899 - 1984)
Letra: Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)

Concierto del Coro Polifónico de la UNR "Noches de otoño" | Ciclo de directores invitados
Director invitado: Mtro. OSCAR LLOBET
Pianista invitada: Mtra. MARIELA VECCHIOLI
Lugar: Centre Catalá (Rosario - Santa Fe - Argentina)
Fecha: 13 de diciembre de 2023

Sopranos:
Candelaria Acutain; Kharem Álvarez Pro; Rosa Marina Carmisciano; Verónica Estévez; Nora Fridman; Sofía Marcucci; Juana Rebosio;
Contralto:
Berenice Bagaloni; Liliana Castillón; Laura Leguizamón; Anabel Narduzzi; Liza Polichiso; Ana Reali; Lucila Soria; Elisa Sorrentino;
Tenores:
Luis Aranda; Alejandro Coltro; Javier Moglione; Manuel Noste; Juan Ignacio Puccio;
Barítonos-Bajos:
Ismael Barrile; Marco Boz; César Castillo; Juan Lemos.

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O Star (the fairest one in sight),
We grant your loftiness the right
To some obscurity of cloud-
It will not do to say of night,
Since dark is what brings out your light.

Some mystery becomes the proud.
But to the wholly taciturn
In your reserve is not allowed.
Say something to us we can learn
By heart and when alone repeat.

Say something! And it says, 'I burn.'
But say with what degree of heat.
Talk Fahrenheit, talk Centigrade.
Use Language we can comprehend.
Tell us what elements you blend.
It gives us strangely little aid,
But does tell something in the end

And steadfast as Keats' Eremite,
Not even stooping from its sphere,
It asks a little of us here.
It asks of us a certain height,
So when at times the mob is swayed
To carry praise or blame too far,
We may choose something like a star
To stay our minds on and be staid.