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Songs of Love and Death

by Marjorie M. Rusche

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Songs of Love and Death song cycle
1. Wild Nights (Emily Dickinson)
2. An Irish Airman Foresees His Death (William Butler Yeats)
3. This is Just to Day (William Carlos Wiliams)
4. After Reading St. John the Divine (Gene Derwood)
5. Love Comes Quietly (Robert Creeley)
March 6, 2020, 4th Annual International Music by Women Festival, Mississippi University for Women, Columbus, MS.

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1. Wild Nights (Emily Dickinson)
Wild Nights, Wild Nights,
Were I with Thee, Wild Nights should be our luxury!
Futile the winds to a Heart in port,
Done with the compass, Done with the chart!
Rowing in Eden, Ah the sea, Ah!
Might I but moor tonight in Thee! Ah!

2. An Irish Airman Foresees His Death (William Butler Yeats)
I know that I shall meet my fate somewhere among the clouds above
Those that I fight I do not hate, Those that I guard I do not love.
My country is Kiltartan Cross, My countrymen Kiltartan's poor
No likely end could bring them loss or leave them happier than before.
Nor law, nor duty bade me fight, Nor public men nor cheering crowds,
a lonely impulse of delight Drove to this tumult in the clouds.
I balanced all, brought all to mind,
the years to come seemed waste of breath
A waste of breath the years behind
in balance with this life, this death.

3. This Is Just to Say (William Carlos Williams)
I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox.
Forgive me.
I have eaten the plums in the icebox
and which you were probably saving for breakfast.
Forgive me. They were delicious.
So sweet and so cold.

4. After Reading St. John the Divine (Gene Derwood)
Moon's glow by sevenfold multiplied turned red.
Burned fierce by the coronal limbs at last
outleaping insulating space ablast.
The searing heat sheeting round earth
ahead of the scorched geoid's course.
And I a bed watching that increased flame
and holding fast to pulse and pillow.
Worse, worse, worse, No shadow cast by chair or cat
All people waking dead.
Earth lurches spacial waste, My room is hot; that moon,
that moon faces her monstrous brimstone disk;
Thick fear stretches before the febrile light.
Green fires pierce at my clenching eyes blind spot.
My buried soul rising to face the risk
with one pure deed restores the natural night.
5. Love Comes Quietly (Robert Creeley)
Love comes quietly finally drops about me, on me,
in the old ways.
What did I know?
Thinking myself able to go alone all the way.

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released March 6, 2020
Kelci Kosin, soprano
Cara Chowning, piano
Marjorie M. Rusche, composer

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MarjorieMRusche South Bend, Indiana

Marjorie M. Rusche is an internationally performed award winning classical composer who combines romantic, modern, vernacular and world music influences. Dr. Rusche composes music for opera, music theater, dance, orchestra, chorus, chamber ensembles & soloists. She teaches music composition, orchestration, music theory, and piano at Indiana University South Bend and the University of Notre Dame. ... more

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