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"Sempre, cruel Senhora" Luis de Camoes
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Composition for Tenor, Strings and Winds. In Portuguese.
jazz classical instrumental vocal opera orchestra chamber ballet
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Composer for large-scale performance work, ballet and opera. Have written music for classical theatrical productions of Shakespeare, ("The Tempest," "The Twelft
Loren Lieberman is a native of Denver, Colorado, now living on the West Coast in California, where he is best known for his work as an actor in Classical and Shakespearean Theatre. He has a degree from Sonoma State University in Theatre Arts, and has been an Honor's Music Composition Student at the College of Marin, Santa Rosa Junior College, and at Sonoma State University. He has won an award for composition from the Redwood Empire Music Association. He has recently completed an opera in Russian, based on the novel by Alexander Solzhenitsyn, "Cancer Ward", (and of the same name), and is currently working on his fourth opera, based on the Classical Tragedy by Sophocles, "Oedipus the King," with a libretto in Ancient Greek. His interest in languages has shaped much of his artistic temperment, and he is self taught in Russian and Sanskrit, and has hopes to begin his next opera, Shakespeare's, "Romeo and Juliet," in Hindi.
Song Info
Genre
Classical Opera
Charts
Peak #94
Peak in subgenre #6
Author
Luis de Camoes/Masaru Yonemitsu
Rights
adhikapokoya 2011
Uploaded
February 13, 2011
Track Files
MP3
MP3 1.7 MB 128 kbps 1:54
Story behind the song
The composition is in Portuguese. A translation of the poem into English follows:
Lyrics
Cruel Senhora, I’ve always been wary. I knew I needed to watch you closely in case your doubts would surge to disaffection and erase our love. Then I’d be ruined, since I love only you. And now, everything I’d hope to have is lost: you’re pursuing another lover. So I detach myself, believing your retribution will match the sacrificial depths my love has cost: I’ve given my soul, my senses, and my life to you; I’ve given you everything I have within me, and you promised love, but now, there’s only disdain. Lost and hopeless, I don’t know what to do, yet I know the day will come when this memory will crush you down with terrifying pain.
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