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"We Will Depart" Sergei Esenin
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For orchestra and tenor voice, in Russian.
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 #90
Peak in subgenre #4
Author
Esenin/Masaru Yonemitsu
Rights
adhikapokoya 2011
Uploaded
August 07, 2011
Track Files
MP3
MP3 4.9 MB 128 kbps 5:21
Story behind the song
A loose translation of the poem, for meaning, follows.
Lyrics
We’ll depart this world for ever, surely, To repose in peace and quite. Oh, my Lord! Maybe, I shall also have to duly Pack my things preparing for the road. Oh, my birch-tree woods! Amazing pictures! Oh, my dear land! My sandy plains! In the face of crowds of mortal creatures I’m unable to conceal my pains. I’ve been filled with love and admiration For the things embodying the soul. Peace to aspens, lost in contemplation, Spreading branches, staring at the shoal. I have thought in silence days and hours, I have written songs. And I don’t grieve. I am happy in this gloomy world of ours To have had a chance to breathe and live. I am happy, I have kissed a woman, I have slept in grass and flower-bed, And I never, like a decent human, Hit a dog or kitten in the head. The unknown land! No blooming pictures! No amazing fields of wheat, so fine! Thus before the crowds of mortal creatures I have always shivers down the spine. In that land, I know, there won’t be any Fields of wheat that shine like gold at night That’s the reason why I love those many Living with me in this country-side. 1924
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